Botched IVF Procedure at Clinic Finally Settles & Yet Another is Filed
The San Francisco Gate recently reported the following:
"A San Mateo County couple filed suit against a San Francisco fertility clinic this week, claiming the doctors implanted the wrong sperm into the woman's eggs and then destroyed the embryos without consent.
According to the complaint, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, Katie Aschero, 31, of El Granada underwent egg retrieval in February in an effort to have a child with her husband, Robert, via invitro fertilization.
The Ascheros later learned that seven of the 13 viable embryos had been inseminated with another man's sperm and that the clinic's staff destroyed those embryos in violation of the couple's contract with Laurel Fertility Care in San Francisco, the complaint said.
The Ascheros' attorney, Nancy Hersh, said the clinic's decision to discard the embryos violated their contract."
[Editor's Note: This post was originally based upon a National Law Journal article. Laurel Fertility Care has disputed some of the reporting by the National Law Journal; therefore, we are removing the disputed information in order to keep our readers from being influenced by material that may not be correct.]
