Would you abort a fetus just because it wasn’t yours?

The question sounds crazy. How could it not be yours? If it’s in your body, you must be the mom, right?

Wrong. Through in vitro fertilization, you can get pregnant with somebody else’s fetus. Thousands of surrogates already have. You can also carry an unrelated child using donor eggs
and sperm. But these are things you’d have to sign up for. The scary
scenario is the one you never expect: going through IVF and
discovering, weeks into your pregnancy, that your doctor put the wrong
embryo in your womb….

Read the rest of the article at Slate here.

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