{"id":322265,"date":"2024-11-28T13:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322265"},"modified":"2024-11-27T01:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T07:46:30","slug":"california-couple-lawsuit-embryos-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-couple-lawsuit-embryos-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"California couple files lawsuit against Connecticut company for destroying their embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A California couple has filed<\/a> a lawsuit<\/a> against a Connecticut company that they say “destroyed” their embryos by using a defective culture media.<\/p>\n

Margarita Komarova and Colin McDarmont said<\/a> that last November they underwent IVF treatment at a fertility clinic using products made by CooperSurgical in Trumbull, Connecticut. They later learned that their embryos were destroyed because “their otherwise healthy embryos had been placed into fundamentally defective embryo culture media, made by Defendants CooperSurgical and Cooper Companies,” notes the complaint<\/a>. “The lab director from Plaintiffs’ clinic explained the surprising news: Cooper’s media altogether lacked one of the most critical, and uniformly standard, ingredients for proper embryonic development – magnesium.”<\/p>\n

Magnesium is necessary<\/a> to support healthy embryo development and it allegedly improves the chances of successful implantation.<\/p>\n

The complaint<\/a> against CooperSurgical also states, “Plaintiffs understandably experienced significant distress following this devastating loss of highly personal and precious embryos, after an extremely expensive and highly invasive process. They blamed themselves and wondered if they would ever be able to have children. The pain was even worse, however, when they found out three weeks later the destruction of their embryos was a preventable tragedy.”<\/p>\n

The complaint said this “gross negligence” has happened with Cooper Companies and Cooper Surgical in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never thought that a company could be so careless and negligent to allow for this to happen,\u201d Komarova and McDarmont said. \u201cBy speaking out and bringing legal action to really demand answers, we hope to prevent any other couple from going through that pain and the challenges we faced.\u201d<\/p>\n

While this carelessness and negligence are truly serious, the practice of IVF is itself controversial because it commodifies children in a highly eugenic process \u2014 it rates them, discriminates against them, and often either discards or indefinitely freezes those human embryos who don’t measure up to certain standards. Typically, those with the supposed best chance of success are implanted. Many who consider themselves pro-life believe that IVF itself is pro-life because it creates babies. However, there is much to consider ethically in this process:<\/p>\n