Gay Couple ‘Devastated’ After Allegedly Botched IVF Results in Babies of Different Races
- Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:33pm by
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A gay couple in London is reportedly “devastated” after an alleged in vitro fertilization mix-up left them with two children from different racial backgrounds, NewsCore reported.
The couple said the allegedly botched treatment only came to light recently after their second child was born; they had wanted to use the same sperm donor again so their children would be genetically related.
“The damage to the [younger] child in the future, to both the siblings and the family unit could be quite catastrophic,” said Caron Heyes, the couple’s lawyer.
The U.K.‘s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is investigating the London Women’s Clinic, where the mistake is alleged to have taken place.
“Our primary concern is for the patients involved and their confidentiality,” an agency spokeswoman told London’s Sunday Times, according to the Daily Mail. “They are understandably very distressed about the incident and the fact that it has become public knowledge.”
Dr. Kamal Ajuja, the clinic’s head, has reportedly hired an independent expert to look into what happened but would not comment on the ongoing investigation.
Clinic lawyers said the chances of a donor sperm mix-up are less than 0.02 percent, according to the Daily Mail.
Still, mistakes are not unheard of: According to NewsCore, a white couple unsuccessfully sued in 2010 after having a black child from the wrong donor sperm. A 2002 case involving a white couple resulted in mixed-race twins after an Asian man’s sperm was mistakenly used.
“All we wanted was a family. Instead, we were landed with a nightmare that will last forever,” the woman later said.
Approximately 13,000 babies were born in the U.K. in 2009 as a result of IVF treatment, according to the HFEA.





















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tkelly33
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:14pmLOL!!! Serves em right and a WELL-DESERVED outcome!!! They CHOOSE to engage in a sexual behavior that precludes ANY chance of having children, yet want to go this way. Well-earned outcome!!!
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:40pmI thought gay people were all about diversity? Why are they displeased they got children of a different race?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:42pmWhat! The gay couple are racist? Where’s Al and Jessie?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:44pmOh that‘s because they aren’t about diversity, and they just want everyone to be gay, and their call for diversity only goes long enough to corrupt. Which goes hand and hand with my analysis that as long as their is even one heterosexual couple in the world who can have their own children by “The light” – “By God” in the world – gays will not be happy people, and seek to destroy God.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:48pmThey tried on their own but all that came out were tint little turds…
Report Post »Rogue Elephant
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:54pmWhy do gay people blacks so much?
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:58pmSorry to tell you this but the damage to those children will go FAR deeper then the color of their skin….
They should get jail time for what they have done to those kids!!!
Commonsense would tell you just how dangerous it is to put children in a home with sexually deviant people!!! What on earth are those doctors thinking???? Pray for those kids. And pray those “parents” find Jesus. What a tragedy!
For the record sin is sin does not matter what kind….The homosexual is not a “worse” sinner then the heterosexual that is not married. Who in their right mind would put kids into that kind of weirdness though??? What good can possibly come from this???
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:25pmThe ones I feel sorry for are the children. If they cannot love a child because of the color of its skin, what hope does that child have.
Report Post »JUNEBUG8
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:31pmTKELLY33 Whether you believe gay couples should have kids is beside the point. Your reference to a well-deserved outcome is heartless. What about the child? It is a shame that this child is so publically unwanted by you or apparently by its “parents”.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:56pmPoetic justice comes to mind. In more than one way. In fact, is so many diverse ways, it’s not funny.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:56pmSo this test-tube baby..whom was not naturally conceived..will have to grow up in an unnatural family and always be known as “a mistake.”
God help the kid that has to grow up with that knowledge.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:59pmJEST: How did you do that ? Brilliant ! Old ELISIUM will probably just show up again under another name with his same Tourette’s syndrome religious babble , BUT I look forward to your comments in the meantime . You win the most creative solution award !
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:00pm“…All they wanted was a family…”
Report Post »Obviously, they don’t know what a family is and are not worthy of one, and just goes to prove two libs can’t make a family. Especially when both are named Guinivere. Or Dorothy. Or Vickie. Or…
Live_Free_orDie
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:54pmHow do you think the kid will feel when he finds out his parents are Gay?
Report Post »Directoratasmallbusiness
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:23pmEvery one of the comments I read so far are a raciest, prejudice, homophobic, or is an uneducated comment. The gay couple said they were “devastated” not that they wouldn’t love the children and that they were unhappy it was made public. I am sure you would be devastated too if you thought you paid for and expected something as important as a child in your particular race and you did not get the child of that race. If so, that would make you a hypocrite. Recent study 18 – 24 year olds were asked what 3 words or phrases came to mind when they heard the word Christian. The answers were: close-minded, hypocrite, and anti-gay. All of you stubbornly unreceptive people who are not ready for change need to HURRY UP AND LEARN if you want your children to be Christian. Also, every psychology study I have read said that a child that grows up with same-sex parents have the exact same problems as a child with parents of the opposite sex. In other words, there are NO ADDED problems for a child to grow up with same-sex parents. In fact, I know they wouldn’t have the narrow-minded view of you people. Furthermore, homosexual love IS NOT A SIN.
Report Post »I suggest you all start somewhere and this would be a good place to start on your raciest, prejudice, and homophobic ideals. Read – A Time to Embrace:
Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics
by William Stacy Johnson a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary
Directoratasmallbusiness
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:24pmJesus taught the new covenant that superseded the old covenant handed down to Moses. So, that takes out the issues of shellfish, wearing two types of clothing, and homosexuality. Also, homosexuality was not even a word until 1869 and the King James Bible was translated by 47 translators. So, there were mistranslation errors in Timothy. Lastly, Jesus never mentioned the word homosexual. And if you still have a problem, read below:
Report Post »NIV Bible
Acts 8: 36- 40 36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] [c] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Mathew 19: 11-12
11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
SO, NEXT TIME YOU PICK AND CHOOSE BIBLE VERSES PICK ONE OF THESE!!!!
snooop1e
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:08pm@Favored93 – Actually Gods Holy word tells us that all sin is NOT the same. 1 John 5:16 “If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that he should pray about that” So there is sin that leads to death and sin that does not lead to death (not according to me, according to God) God Bless
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:15pmLuckily, obama isn’t.their president, after birth abortion would have been an option.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:17pmDirector do you think eunuchs are gay people in the Bible?
Perhaps you might want to look that one up? The are generally castrated (sometimes impotent or celibate) men who were put in charge of harem servants; so they would not partake in relations with the women. They had other uses.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:23pmHow‘s that ’free health care’ working out for you??
Why are they complaining? It’s FREE!!!!
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:49pmwhy do gay people hate blacks
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:12pmHey DIRECTOR, try reading Romans, BTW , Glad to see you have so little self esteem that you need to let us all know that you are a director at a small business that must mean that you are superior to the rest of us homophobic bitter clingers.
Report Post »ITSJESTTIM
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:30pm@barber2
“JEST: How did you do that ?”
Jest having some fun. Looks like that post got deleted though. : )
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:08amITSJESTTIM,
Report Post »Hardy har har.
@Directoratasmallbusiness,
Eunuchs who are born that way are such as Autism.
Eunuchs who are made that way are such as diseased or brain damage, or people have done tragic things to them to make them escape into the mind.
Eunuchs who choose to be Eunuchs are those with one foot in the east and one foot in the west, and choose it for Heavens sake. This group would be like a person who is always day-dreaming, or staying in the temple even longer.
mauijonny
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:49amWhat a couple of creepy racists. And, ya know, there IS a way to alliviate sperm donor mistakes – it’s by having face-to-face sex…with a man…who you know…
Anyways, I feel horrible for a child who’ll be forever seen as a “devastating” mistake by the people who’re supposed to love them. How cruel & shallow.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:13amThey see a family of mixed races as a problem, but they have no problem with the children having no father and 2 mothers? What a bizarre set of family values these people have.
Report Post »I find it admirable that people are willing to adopt children no matter what race. A white couple I know adopted an Asian child. The child now has a family to care for her and will keep her safe and healthy. Would they see that as a bad thing? Well, if he was Woody Allen I suppose it would be. LOL
davuf
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:49am@ Director: You sound like the only sane person on this thread. I don’t know how any of you Christians can have such contempt for children. So the gay couple had IVF, good for them. I’m not in favor of gay marriage, but I figure live and let live. I don’t want them to tell me what to do in my personal life and so I give them the same courtesy.
As far as the clinic goes, this is a serious error on their part. What if the sperm that was put into the woman was from her father or brother? There is a huge potential liability and the clinic should be rightfully sued for this oversight.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:35pmDAVUF…did you ever stop to think why this happened? It’s because homosexuals rely on a third party to procreate. They’re prohibited by nature to naturally procreate. This isn’t an infertility matter, it’s an incompatibility matter. They‘re not meant to procreate as the same sex it’s an impossibility.
Report Post »DAVUF…did you ever stop to think that homosexuals are a dead end?
Directoratasmallbusiness
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:02pm@ITSJESTTIM@ MR GOODVIBE@COFEMALE
Let me paraphrase something for you and explain to those of you who DO NOT KNOW WHAT you are talking about or are just prejudice.
Acts 8: 37 -39 Philip explained to him that the person Isaiah was talking about was Jesus Christ, and this good news moved him to the core. They come up on some water. Now, remember, this is in the desert. There is no water in the desert. Luke, who wrote this, felt this was a “God-thing.” And the eunuch asked Philip “What is to prevent me from being baptized?” It’s an interesting way to phrase the question, but yes, there was something. The law. The fact that he was sexually unfit. But Philip was shaped more by the Spirit than by the law; more by the love of Jesus Christ than the legalism of Moses. And Philip baptized the eunuch and the eunuch went on his way rejoicing.
The word homosexual was not even a word until 1869! There are many different definitions of a person who was a eunuch. The eunuch mentioned here was GAY!!!
I am in the upper 3% of the most educated people in the world and I am an attractive person MR GOODVIBE. I have more confidence and self-esteem. Apparently, you must have self-esteem issues MR GOODVIBE if you are bother by my confidence in being successful in sharing that with my user name!!! What a joke. I could probably help you work on your issues if you would like me too.
Report Post »Oh, BTW I could get one of my assistants to do my research, but I do my own research FYI.
DAVUF –
Directoratasmallbusiness
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:31pmDAVUF – thanks. You sound like an intelligent and sane person as well.
Report Post »Razlord
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:13pmfreaking joke
Report Post »Directoratasmallbusiness
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:31pmEvery child is created in God’s image.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:53pmWhen the kid grows up it will look like obamination
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:24amDirector-
Report Post »You are correct; but have you taken into consideration the image of the child created by man, pretending to be God? Not sure if it is Jungian in nature, but surely you have time to research; get one of your many admin assistants to do your leg work.
ProFireFighter
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:27amSilly Director,
Report Post »God makes children in His own image.
These children were not made in Gods Way. They were made by man attempting to be God.
IVF is not of God.
karmon7
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:12pmWhy is everyone up in arms about two perverts paying to pervert the natural process of childbirth? They are like the nouveau riche trying to buy themselves into acceptance and respectability. It’s a wonder that Jeffrey Dahmer never figured out this way to get his victims. Instead he went to gay bars picked up a “lover” then chopped him up and ate him.
Report Post »KrebsCyclist
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:33pmBecause of the victims: not just the two children brought to term, but the dozen or so likely destroyed before they could mature beyond eight cells.
If you’re not “up in arms” about that, the fault lies with you.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:11pmThey wanted a rainbow colored transgendered alien….
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:06pmWe don’t need another Obama.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:11pmThis just says more about the thought processes of these two “adults.” Just another wonderful decision based on what THEY want, not necessarily what might be best for the children they use to get what THEY want. Me. Me. Me.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:10pmThese people do not want God’s blessing. They are lulled into evil. They have no business having children. They are not even capable of having them with each other. It is a good thing. Those who place children in the hands of sodomites are as guilty of those sins as are the sodomites. They are ruining the lives of children and causing confusion in this land.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:12pmHey BlackYB did you read the article even. Since the couple are “GAY” they have no chance in Heaven or Hell of having a baby, physiologically impossible without “MALE” intervention. And who does not forget our High School Biology class where they tell you that even two white rabbits can on occasion produce a “Black” offspring, guess what if they find that the donor is white. I will prove that point even more. In that it is the fact that we still don’t have a handle on how to manipulate DNA to totally create the outcome we want. Blonde hair and blue eyed is still a crapshoot and will always be when God created a process so complicated that not even the smartest human genius can figure it out.
Praise God for his forward thinking process of reproduction and evolution. Evolution can only go so far and it hits the wall of God’s knowledge.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:33pmJust be happy with Mr. Hanky or a Furbie it’s best for everyone.
Report Post »evilhatemonger
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:09pmLOL.
Report Post »Should have done it the old fashioned way.
KrebsCyclist
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:37pmTurkey baster?
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:08pmLooks as though this gay couple can’t handle multiculturalism or genetic diversity.
Report Post »seanscythe
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:43pmbut but but the child was born that way…..Surprised they didn’t tell them to abort the kid after it was born. I mean look how they reacted and it‘s not like they care it’s just for them to create a fantasy family and warp these kids as they grow up.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:23pmyes isn’t it hate speech in that country? how many women do we see with different colored kids one of every shape size and color and 5 baby daddies? isn’t that the social norm now? these people are heartless, don‘t they understand their children someday will know about this and figure something is wrong with them because even my gay parents don’t like my color? Pray for these children.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:08pmIt‘s to bad that this Gay couple just can’t be tolerant of others no matter who they are. They sound like they are “Racialphobes”. Can’t they just love?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:07pmThe reasons Gays cannot reproduce with one another is that is it not natural. They were not ment to have children, or they would be able too. They only people who have children are if one is a male and one is a female, then they will be blessed with children. Those who have sex outside of marriage are given a gift that is not going to bless them because it is a stolen and outside the confines of marriage. These children are often left for someone else to support because one or the other of the parents are not interested in child rearing in the first place. It takes about more strength than one parent has to raise a child in a single parent home. The child is often less able to compete with other who have a two parent family. It is a result of selfishness and sin. The children suffer. Pawning them off on “gay” people should not be a consideration. Gay people want their cake and eat it too, just like unmarried people who have children. The children are not getting anything they deserve. This is a symptom of a Godless and sick society. People need to have leaders who set examples of right and wrong, and who are willing to acknowlege God in their speech, actions and offices. Those need to understand they are not killing God, but are killing any future with peace and love their children may have. We cannot legislate morality, but we can acknowlege God and set examples by our behavior that will lead people in the right direction. Right now we are breeding a nation of psychopaths.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:42amWas this the same perverted thought you consoled yourself with when you stepped in and stole that single persons child?When you harrassed and stalked and terrified the single parent into submission for your own selfish desires?Did you convince yourself that the parent didn’t want there child?
Report Post »I will agree that raising a child in a two parent househole is preferable and morally just as it were.This however doesn’t preclude single parents from being dynamite parents.Parents die is this single parent also less because they are a single parent through no fault of their own?
Mandors
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:06pmGay racists, great. This is what you get when you treat children and parenting like its ordering something on a menu. Sometimes the kitchen screws up the order.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:50pmActually on one gay blog at blogspot.com they were talking about gay racism. It is alive & well. Funny thing about the blog is that it doesn’t have too much diversity either. Now that is gay.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:27pm“The damage to the [younger] child in the future, to both the siblings and the family unit could be quite catastrophic,” Like that’s going to be the biggest challenge those kids face anyway.
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:00pmWonder what their parents thought when they found out they were gay? Did they call them nightmares or tolerate their kids lifestyle?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:05pmIf they are so devistated .. why don’t they give the baby to people who will love it no matter what color it is. Nightmare .. no GIFT FROM GOD … you don’t deserve
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:13pmRight on ,CatB
Report Post »completehorsesense
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:00pmNow check out Cain and Abel and their pedigree, Cains pedigree are in GENISIS Chapter 4 and Abels pedigree are in Chapter 5. No mention of ADAM in Cains pedigree.
Report Post »ladyrider
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:51pmI thought your comment was very interesting so decided to check it out in the Bible. Genesis Chapter 4 verse one specifically states that “Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain…..” I may not agree with your statement, but I DO appreciate the way it made me check it out for myself, thanks!
Report Post »A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 3:21pmCain and Able were twins. Eve “continued in labor”. Able had no offspring. Cain murdered him. Seth continued Adam’s line.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 4:54pmcool story
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:58pmSo having children with different external features is now a “nightmare”. What nonsense is this? It’s not as though the parents would likely let their children meet the sperm donor anyways. I have a friend whose parents adopted a young girl with obviously different skin color and she has since grow up to be a very happy preteen. These “parents” are the only ones making an issue out of it so it will be their fault if there are problems later on.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 2:08pmYes. Don’t you think that once the kids learn about the birds and the bees they will figure out that the two “moms” don’t make a baby ??
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 6:24pm@barber2
Report Post »Exactly. And when that happens is it really going to matter if they happened to have come from the same sperm donor? Either they’ll be biological half-siblings or step-siblings (is that how it works? I’m really not too sure).
blackyb
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:58pmWho is stupid enough to vote for those living in relationships of sodomy, contrary to God’s word and who are raising children? Who would go against the Word of God and place children in an environment of confusion and say this is in best interest of a child? Who is that stupid? We wonder why this country is being taken over. Look what we are spawining. Looks at Americans who have no shame and those who are bringing little children into this ridiclous mess because someone wants to be “progressive” in their thinking. This is the reward for those who think they are above the Commandments of God. They have seen nothing yet.
Report Post »Broncobuster
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:57pmPeople like to play God and are unhappy with the results.
Report Post »becauseitmatters
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:28pmWow! Such insight. What a good point.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:53pmWhat does it matter what color it is.. it is a child of God!!
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:53pmI wouldn’t care what race a child is, I love children. I’ll always love children, they are a joy and a blessing.
Report Post »becauseitmatters
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 5:28pmAmen!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 7:07pmYou have not met some of the children in my neighborhood.
Report Post »hi
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:48pmA nightmare? She has two baby-kins! Two blessings.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:46pmWhat crap! You DO have a family. We have to assume that the babies are healthy…. Where is the nightmare? Don’t gays want acceptance and tolerance? I guess that’s just a one way street. These people are not fit to be parents.
Report Post »stotlaat
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:45pmThey should consider adopting out their little night mare. Who will then become someone else’s treasured angel : )
Report Post »sfcpete
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:44pmn believable British gays are racists. Umm maybe both kids are muslims.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:43pmOops. Ah, the wonders of science ! Just one of those “Abby Normal ” deals…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:41pmWill… Discrimination… never end :)
Report Post »JohnnyRaiden
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 1:41pmWell then, hope they don’t ever release the parents names. Wouldn’t want the little kid googling them to find out they considered his birth a “Nightmare”.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:17pm“we were landed with a nightmare that will last forever”
Report Post »The same kind of nightmare Obamma talked about when he said he did not want his girls being punished for making a mistake.