"Terrible mistake"
“While we love Baby Jessica as our own, we are reminded of this terrible mistake each and every time we look at her.”
A couple is suing a fertility clinic for using the wrong sperm in their successful IVF treatment.
The “terrible mistake” is obvious because the child is…well…”darker” than her parents.
I can understand being upset at getting the “wrong sperm”. Usually, when you’re deep in the throes of IF treatment, you’re stuck on that unique-and-beautiful-mix of you and your spouse.
But…dayum…”terrible mistake”?
They look at their daughter and think “terrible mistake”?
Or, more likely, they let their lawyer put those words down on paper to make it a better case, rather than actually thinking it each time they look at her. I hope.
Let’s hope they win enough money to pay for Jessica’s therapy when she’s an angst-filled teen who knows that everyone in the world knows that her parents thought she was the result of a “terrible mistake”.
Maybe fertility clinics should just start putting a “you git what you git and you don’t throw a fit” clause into their service contracts…
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