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REI: Mixed up EmbryosFrom: Geffrey H. Klein, MD (gklein@icsi.net)Tue Mar 30 09:35:38 1999
Tuesday March 30 8:09 AM ET Woman To Give Up Baby After Mix Up NEW YORK (AP) - A white woman who gave birth to a black child after she was accidentally implanted with another couple's embryos will surrender the baby to the couple who are believed to be the biological parents, her lawyer said. Donna and Richard Fasano will give up the 3-month-old boy ``because we love him,'' they said Monday in a statement. ``We both want what's in the best interest of the child,'' Mrs. Fasano said. Mrs. Fasano gave birth Dec. 29 to two boys, one black and one white. The Fasanos decided to raise the white child and allow Robert and Deborah Perry Rogers to raise the black child if DNA tests confirm that they are his biological parents, said Mrs. Fasano's lawyer, Ivan Tantleff. They hope to get visitation rights. ``The Fasanos have reared, loved and cared for both children as their own,'' he said. ``(Mrs. Fasano) doesn't look at them as white and black. She looks at them as her sons. She is torn apart by this.'' The Rogerses, from Teaneck, N.J., sued over the case, seeking custody. Court papers said that last April, 71-year-old Dr. Lillian Nash, in her Manhattan office, implanted eggs fertilized by their husbands in the two women's uteruses. Each couple had tried for years to conceive a child but had been unsuccessful. Mrs. Rogers did not become pregnant from the procedure. Mrs. Fasano, however, became pregnant with twins. The mix-up was discovered two weeks into her pregnancy. The doctor said several of Mrs. Rogers' embryos, deemed unsuitable for storage for use in a future attempt at pregnancy, accidentally were implanted in Mrs. Fasano along with her own. Mrs. Fasano opted to go ahead with the pregnancy after learning the twins were healthy, even though one was not genetically hers, Tantleff said. Mrs. Rogers was astonished by the news that the Fasanos would relinquish the black child, said her lawyer, Rudolph Silas. ``She was very excited to hear the good news and overwhelmed after so many failed efforts to conceive,'' he said. The Fasanos were expected to meet the Rogerses, for the first time, in a few days.
-- Geffrey H. Klein, MD geffrey.klein@obgyn.net 2200 Nasa Rd 1 #200 Houston, Texas 77058 (713) 741 2273 ext 2628
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