Mother Gave Birth to the Wrong Baby After IVF Clinic Makes Horrific Mistake

Krystena spent her “entire life wanting to be a mom.”  Finally in her mid-30s, she went to an IVF fertility clinic, chose a donor to fertilize her egg, and paid twice for an embryo transfer before it was successful.

She was ecstatic when she found out she was pregnant. But the moment her son was born, she was immediately confused. Her child’s birth was supposed to be her happiest moment, but it turned into a nightmare. To be blunt, Krystena is Caucasian and so was her donor, but she had given birth to a black baby boy.

Her next thought was, Can they take him away from me? Joy turned to fear. After the initial shock, she fell in love with the child. “I would have done literally anything to keep him,” Krystena says. For the next five months, she cared for the baby before he was ripped away, never to be seen again.

IVF clinics have virtually no regulations. Yet Congress is considering unlimited funding for these clinics with an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The chaos for mothers like Krystena cannot be calculated. Tell Congress NOT to fund IVF experiments.

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“I considered the consequences of IVF,” Krystena says. But that she “might birth someone else’s child” and have the child taken away was unthinkable.

She loved this baby and nursed him. But when a DNA test confirmed he was not her child — and that the clinic had implanted the wrong embryo — she gave him to his biological parents to avoid a long legal battle.

“I have never felt so violated and the situation has left me emotionally and physically broken,” Krystena says.

To make matters worse, the fertility clinic doesn’t even know what happened to Krystena’s embryos (her children).

But she is not alone — in California, Ovation Fertility is accused of accidentally using hydrogen peroxide instead of distilled water during incubation — killing the babies. And then knowing the embryos were dead still placed them in two dozen women. This clinic allegedly relied on “inexperienced, cheap, untrained employees” to cut corners and boost profits.

In the first case, a loving mother had her baby taken away. In the second, would-be parents were lied to for profit. Now, legislators want to pour unlimited tax dollars into IVF clinics on a scale that is unimaginable. They want YOU to pay for these human experiments. Tell them to stop.

Many IVF clinics treat babies like commodities, parents like wallets, and lifesaving oversight like an annoyance. The result? Family tragedies and broken hearts. The stories go on. . .

• In 2019, a New Jersey couple filed suit against the “Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science for an alleged mistake of putting the wrong egg with the wrong sperm.” The couple noticed Asian features developing in the child at around the two-year mark, and after a DNA test showed the father had a 0% chance of being biologically related. The stress and tension led to divorce.
• In recent years, numerous “fertility fraud” cases have come to light, where women unknowingly gave birth to children fathered by more than 50 doctors. Such scenarios can lead “to a worst-case scenario coming to pass: accidental incest.” In one case, a woman conceived from fertility doctor’s sperm (without her mother’s permission) eventually discovered she had 22 siblings — one of whom had been her high school boyfriend.

The IVF industry is far from ready to withstand the moral temptations that unlimited tax dollars will throw at it. Taxpayers should not be compelled to underwrite a system where human life is frozen, graded, traded like stocks, discarded, used for experiments, and detached from any real sense of personal dignity. Urge Congress not to fund IVF in the NDAA.

Liberty Counsel Action is mobilizing and taking this fight to Capitol Hill. We are demanding accountability, regulation, and legal structuring that affirms life — from conception to birth. But we can’t do it alone.

Will you help us raise our voice?

LifeNews Note: Mat Staver is the Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action and Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.

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