A Lod court orders a woman who received the wrong embryo during fertility treatments to hand over the results of genetic testing done on the baby.
If the baby is found to be that of another couple, suspected to be the biological parents, the woman carrying the baby, and her husband, could be forced to give it up.
Lawyers representing the pregnant woman say they plan to appeal the ruling.
“It’s not their baby, it’s mine. Let me give birth in peace,” the woman carrying the fetus tells Channel 12 after the ruling.
The couple has said it had taken them years for the wife to get pregnant, requiring multiple rounds of fertility treatments at Rishon Lezion’s Assuta Medical Center, including hormone therapies, egg extractions and other procedures, before they were finally successful.
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