Japanese Woman Implanted with Wrong Egg - Chose to Abort Pregnancy
Hospital officials in Japan have reported that a Japanese woman was likely impregnated with the fertilized egg of another woman by accident during an in vitro procedure last year.
According to the Associated Press, the woman, who is in her 20s, aborted the pregnancy when she was told of the potential mix-up at the government-run hospital in Kagawa prefecture, about 330 miles southwest of Tokyo.
"She is now suing the local government for 20 million yen ($222,000), according to news reports. Hospital officials apologized for the mistake at a news conference Thursday.
"She was very happy after undergoing such a difficult procedure and becoming pregnant, but unfortunately a mistake had been made," said Yuzo Matsumoto, director of the Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital.
The hospital has a long history of carrying out such procedures, and this is the first time such a mistake has occurred, hospital spokesman Hajime Morishita said.
"The in vitro procedures are carried out in sequence one after the other, and in this case the eggs from one procedure may have accidentally been left over and used in the following procedure," he said.
In vitro procedures — in which a woman's eggs are removed, fertilized outside the womb, and placed in her uterus to cause a pregnancy — are common in Japan, with hundreds of thousands carried out per year.
The case drew wide attention because bearing and raising children who are not related to the mother is uncommon and has been discouraged by Japanese medical groups.
Surrogate births, in which eggs are removed for fertilization and implanted in another woman, and adoptions are rare in the country."
All I can say is wow, this woman was courageous for handling this issue in the way that she did. This could have caused an entirely different set of issues for her to deal with, as well as the rest of the people involved. Unfortunately, an abortion had to occur to solve this. What are your thoughts?
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