Rome's Sandro Pertini Hospital was
inundated with telephone calls Monday from worried couples
seeking reassurances after reports that a woman was implanted
with the wrong embryos at the facility and was carrying twins
that are not her own.
The Roman hospital has helped hundreds of people with
assisted-fertility treatment, many of whom now fear that
children they are expecting or that have been born to them may
not be genetically theirs.
The Pertini Hospital is conducting a series of tests to
verify the accuracy of DNA tests carried out by the parents who
reported the embryo swap, "also to reassure the others", the
hospital said.
The lawyer of the couple that reported the mix-up also
sent the documentation of the DNA exam to Roman public health
authorities.
The documentation will be analyzed while during the wait
for the results of additional exams.
The woman has decided to take the pregnancy to term, her
lawyer told Rome-based newspaper La Repubblica.
"I had a moment of human rejection when I knew that they
were not mine, or rather ours, that the embryos that I was
carrying were of another woman, but then we decided that the
pregnancy had to continue, our values are these," said the woman
according to her lawyer, Michele Ambrosini.
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