妇女因胚胎混淆而终止妊娠 同时起诉移植的生殖诊所

妇女因胚胎混淆而终止妊娠 同时起诉移植的生殖诊所：Woman terminates pregnancy after embryo mix-

去年，一名马萨诸塞州妇女在发现移植的胚胎与她没有遗传关系后，决定终止她通过体外受精受孕的妊娠。

由于担心分娩后发生监护权之争，这对夫妇决定在六个月后终止妊娠，而这样做会成为非法行为。据《纽约邮报》报道，这对夫妇现在正在起诉他们接受体外受精的纽约生育研究所诊所，该诊所也在接受纽约州卫生部门的调查。据华盛顿邮报报道，在3月25日向曼哈顿联邦法院提起的诉讼中，该诉讼被称为Jane和John Doe，指控该诊所丢失或未披露这对夫妇的胚胎是否已转移给另一个人。

根据诉讼：的不当行为剥夺了Doe女士携带自己孩子的能力。

“Doe女士和Doe先生一直被关于他们的胚胎变成了什么的问题所困扰。他们需要担心他们的胚胎是否被转移到另一对不知情的夫妇身上，以及他们是否有另一个孩子或他们从未见过的孩子？

据Metro报道，该诉讼还指控该诊所未能披露该诊所的胚胎学家Michael Obasaju此前曾在1998年将错误的胚胎移植到一名患者体内。这一事件导致了一起涉及一名妇女的监护案件，该妇女生下了双胎：一个是她自己的白人，一个是来自另一对夫妇的胚胎的黑人（见BioNews 276）。

在目前的案例中，该错误是在该妇女的产科医生推荐一种称为全景筛查的NIPT（非侵入性产前检测）以评估胎儿染色体异常风险后首次发现的。测试结果显示为：“由于自己体内/胎儿DNA模式信息不完整（疑似不匹配），没有结果。”

负责该女性体外受精的生育专家Khalid Sultan博士最初认为，这一结果要么是由于实验室错误，要么是“嵌合体”，这意味着她体内存在两种类型的DNA。他建议再次运行测试，但同样的结果也出现在第二次测试中。苏丹博士继续向这对夫妇保证，不可能发生错误。他下令进行镶嵌性测试，但结果为阴性。

《华盛顿邮报》称，在这一发现之后，这对夫妇获得了一位独立胚胎学家的服务，后者希望与诊所的工作人员会面，以获取证据证明转移到Doe女士体内的胚胎是这对夫妇的。随着该州法定终止妊娠期限的临近，这对夫妇决定终止妊娠。

这对夫妇正在寻求未指明的损害赔偿，并希望法官命令诊所披露他们的胚胎发生了什么。

原文：

A Massachusetts woman decided to terminate her pregnancy conceived via IVF last year after discovering the embryo transferred was not one genetically related to her.

Fearing a custody battle after childbirth the couple decided to end the pregnancy at six months，days before it would have become illegal to do so.The couple is now suing the clinic where they had received IVF，New York Fertility Institute，which is also under investigation from the New York state health department，New York Post reported.Referred to as Jane and John Doe in a lawsuit filed on 25 March in Manhattan Federal Court，the lawsuit accuses the clinic of either losing or failing to disclose if the couple's embryo had been transferred into another person，Washington Post reported.

According to the lawsuit：'Defendants'misconduct robbed Ms Doe of the ability to carry her own child.

'Ms Doe and Mr Doe are haunted by questions about what became of their embryos.They have needed to worry about whether their embryos were transferred to another unwitting couple，and whether they have another child or children out in the world whom they have never met？'

The lawsuit also alleges the clinic had failed to disclose that the clinic's embryologist，Michael Obasaju，had previously transferred the wrong embryo into a patient in 1998，Metro reported.This incident had led to a custody case involving a woman who gave birth to twins:one white，her own，and one black，from an embryo from another couple(see BioNews 276).

In the current case the error was first discovered after the woman's obstetrician recommended a form of NIPT(non-invasive prenatal testing)called Panorama screening to assess the fetus risk for chromosomal abnormalities.The tests results came back reading：'No results due to uninformative(suspect nonmatching)maternal/fetal DNA patterns.'

Dr Khalid Sultan，the fertility specialist responsible for the woman's IVF，initially suggested this result was either due to a laboratory error or'mosaicism'，meaning that two types of DNA were present in her body.He suggested the test be run again but the same result came back for the second test as well.Dr Sultan continued to assure the couple that a mistake could not have occurred.He ordered tests for mosaicism，but those came back negative.

After this discovery the couple obtained the services of an independent embryologist who wanted to meet with staff at the clinic to obtain evidence that the embryo transferred into Ms Doe was the couple's，the Washington Post said.With the date for the legal limit for pregnancy termination in the state approaching，the couple decided to end the pregnancy.

The couple are seeking unspecified damages and want a judge to order the clinic to reveal what happened to their embryos.