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Would you abort a fetus just because it wasn\u2019t yours?<\/p>\n

The question sounds crazy. How could it not be yours? If it\u2019s in your body, you must be the mom, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. Through in vitro fertilization, you can get pregnant with somebody else\u2019s fetus. Thousands of surrogates already have<\/a>. You can also carry an unrelated child using donor eggs<\/a>
\nand sperm. But these are things you\u2019d have to sign up for. The scary
\nscenario is the one you never expect: going through IVF and
\ndiscovering, weeks into your pregnancy, that your doctor put the wrong
\nembryo in your womb\u2026. <\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Slate here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"