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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Genetics is absolutely legally and ethically a determining factor. In most states in this country would have legally given back the baby to the biological parents.
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Can you tell us these states and give us a link to the specific laws that would result in this couple legally being required to give the baby to the genetic parents? Thanks!

The article about the lawyer of the biological parents states that this is an extremely rare situation, so it is interesting that there are states that have laws that cover such an unlikely event as accidently being implanted with a different couple’s embryo. 
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This is from Murphy, Anar, and Michael Collins. 2024. “Legal Case Study of Severe IVF Incidents Worldwide: Causes, Consequences, and High Emotional, Financial, and Reputational Costs to Patients and Providers.” North American Proceedings in Gynecology & Obstetrics 3 (3). https://doi.org/10.54053/001c.118936.
Worldwide they found 25 incidents of embryo mix ups affecting 64 people.

3.3.1. Consequences of frozen reproductive specimen mix-ups
Frozen reproductive specimen mix-ups are the most prevalent type of IVF related incident following catastrophic large-scale storage, tank, and alarm failures (Figure 2). The first widely publicized U.S. case that set a precedent for the following cases on who would get the child(ren)—genetic or birth parents—was Perry-Rogers v. Fasano (2000). In this case, a White couple, Richard and Donna Fasano, had twin sons via ART/IVF treatment, one of whom was an African American child. The newborn boy’s genetic parents, Deborah Perry-Rogers and Robert Rogers sued the Fasanos for the custody of their biological son and won. At 8 months, their son was returned to them.[b] All the following U.S. cases of embryo mix-ups, resulting in a wrong parent carrying the child(ren) who was not biologically related to them, to term, were settled in favor of genetic parents,[/b] including Manukyan v. CHA Fertility (2019). In this particularly devastating case, an Asian couple who went to California to seek fertility treatments were expecting to have twin daughters, but instead, the mother gave birth to twin boys, who were not Asian and were not related to each other. The two other parental couples sued and successfully won the custody of their biological children, leaving the birth couple who wanted to raise the children devastated. What happened to the couple’s own two female embryos were never determined, and their case, A.P. et al v. CHA Health Systems, Inc. et al., moved from New York State to California for further litigation (2023).[/quote]

That is a summary of some court cases, in which they appear to favor the genetic parents. Interesting that they could only find 25 cases like this, worldwide. So how many US cases have there been?

Do any states have any statutory laws that apply in these cases that involve another couple’s embryos being implanted by mistake?

It would be interesting to know the reason the biological parents chose to not assert their rights to the child if the legal precedent indicates they’d be highly likely to win the case. It appears there’s more to the story here, but they are not sharing their story.

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This is a matter of state law as many prior posts have explained. The legal precedent does not indicate that the biological parents would be highly likely to win the case because cases from around the world or around the country don’t control a matter of state law. And Florida law favors the birth parent.[/quote]

Can you cite the state law involved here, please?

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