California Embryo Clinic

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Two couples on both sides of the country are suing a fertility clinic for allegedly planting the wrong embryos after hiring the company to become parents.

Anni and Ashot Manukyan accuse the CHA Fertility clinic of implanting her embryo and that of another couple in the womb of a New York woman whose identity has not been revealed. The New York woman and her husband, both of Asian descent, hoped to have twins and instead gave birth to two male boys of the banking race who did not look anything like them.

Now both couples are suing the company for medical negligence and emotional stress, among other unlikely charges for the error.

Anni Ashot told CBS News that the white twins were born on March 31 and that a CHA representative then called them for a fertility test, without telling them why.

"They knew [what was happening] the day the twins were born because apparently they called CHA and said, 'OK, we are Asian and these children are white, they are Caucasian,'" said the troubled mother.. "These children are definitely not ours."

The confusion has unleashed a tough legal battle that has already been in the hands of lawyers for two months, including Adam Wolff of the Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane firm in California. Thanks to this, the Ashot family was able to reunite with their son.

“I was not there for the birth. I couldn't carry him in my arms, nor feel his kicks on my belly, "Anni explains about the hard moments she and her baby have gone through, whom they have called Alec. "No one should meet their son in a hotel lobby."

The New York couple declined to release their identity out of "grief and shame." Now both families have made it their mission that no one else suffers at the hands of the clinic. "CHA made three families live hell and their lives will never be the same again," it was said in a press release. "We fight to bring our son back, and we will fight that this never happens again."