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After several unsuccessful attempts to conceive a baby through in vitro fertilization, a Massachusetts couple learned last year that they were expecting a baby girl, court records state.
Months into the pregnancy, their obstetrician recommended the mother undergo genetic testing to rule out abnormalities. The baby was okay, court records state, but the test results revealed something the couple never saw coming: There was a zero percent probability the couple — identified only as Jane and John Doe — were the biological parents.
Specialists at the New York Fertility Institute, which they had paid for the IVF procedure, repeatedly assured the couple that the test was not a problem and that they were, in fact, the biological parents, court records state.
The doctors first allegedly claimed the test was inaccurate before diagnosing the mother with a rare condition, saying her body contained two sets of DNA.
But the parents worried the test was accurate — that they weren’t the parents and that the clinic had transferred a stranger’s embryo into the woman’s uterus. Fearing the emotional toll of...