What Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry?

Published: July 22, 2019, 5:18 p.m.

It sounds like the setup to a bad joke: Three couples walk into a fertility clinic. But the punch line\u2014what happened to those families at one Los Angeles medical facility in August 2018\u2014is no laughing matter. The embryos from two couples hoping to conceive were mistakenly implanted into a third patient. That third woman and her husband, both of Korean descent, suspected that something was amiss when their two newborns didn\u2019t look anything like them.