Italian Woman to Keep Twins Despite Mixed-Up IVF Procedure
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iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) — After an expectant mother in Rome learned that she was implanted with the wrong embryos, she’s decided that she will carry the twins to term.
According to the Telegraph, the woman, who has not been identified, underwent an IVF treatment on Dec. 4 at the Pertini hospital in Rome, and found out only Monday that the babies she was carrying were not her own. Authorities say the mix-up might have occurred because the woman has a similar last name to another woman who was undergoing the IVF procedure on the same day.
At first she considered terminating the pregnancy, but the woman changed her mind and decided instead to have the babies. Though the twins share no DNA with the woman and her husband, under Italian law, the children will be hers.
“Legal claims will be useless to get the twins back,” Italy’s national bioethics committee vice president, Lorenzo D’Avack said, according to the Telegraph.
The biological mother’s own IVF pregnancy reportedly ended with a miscarriage.
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