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Family

Jun. 17, 2003

DCA Names Parents in Inadvertent Embryo Swap

SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife is the legal father of the son born to a single woman who got the embryo by mistake, a state appeals court has ruled.

        By Pamela A. MacLean
        Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - A husband who intended that his sperm be used by a fertility clinic to create embryos to impregnate his wife is the legal father of the son born to a single woman who got the embryo by mistake, a state appeals court has ruled.
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