The strange story of 6 women’s struggle for a baby begins when a woman became pregnant with the help of fertility drugs at Rishon Lezion Hospital, Israel. However, this pregnancy resulted in an embryo that did not biologically belong to her or hers husband, after implanting it in her womb through the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process by mistake. .
When the matter came to light last September, the health ministry said the hospital apologized for the emotional burden and distress it caused to patients.
Mixed pedigrees
Following the discovery of mixed genealogies, an Israeli court ruled that genetic testing was needed to determine the biological parents of the fetus.
Israeli officials announced late last month that they would stop searching for the birth mother, but according to Channel 12, 6 women and their husbands who believed the child was theirs biologically announced they had appealed the court for genetic testing.
The couple, who obtained the fetus by mistake, plan to sue Rishon Lezion Hospital and seek NIS 10 million ($2.9 million) in compensation for “negligence and psychological damage”.
It is not the first time that an accidental implantation of embryos has been reported in the world.
And the American Los Angeles Times reported the case of a woman who found out weeks after the birth of her daughter that it did not belong to her biologically, but in the end she kept it.
