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IVF: The Ultimate Blind Faith…Shattered

September 16th, 2009. By AbiK

Usually religion and the belief in a higher power is what comes to mind when you think about blind faith (or maybe some classic rock, thank you E.C.). But if you’ve been through IVF, you know what blind faith is. And Katharine Aschero surely knows it, too. According to the National Law Journal, she and her husband recently filed a lawsuit for a botched in vitro fertilization procedure.

How botched? Well, imagine learning that an “error” had occured in which your eggs, after extraction, had been fertilized with the wrong man’s sperm. Now imagine that before you knew that, you found out that “your” embryos had been destroyed without your consent. It’s one of the most heart-wrenching things any parents-to-be can endure.

I don’t think you can understand the insanity of it all unless you understand what it takes to go through certain IVF procedures. My own situation may differ from many out there, but let me just say the checks and balances that were put in place to allow me to go through IVF were astounding… Read the rest of this entry »

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