A lesbian couple in Australia is suing their IVF doctor after one of them bore twins instead the one child they had asked for.  They want the doctor to pay them over $400,000 to cover the cost of raising the extra baby girl.

The birth mother, who cannot be identified, told the court she and her partner finally decided to keep the kid they originally did not want.

She said adopting out one child would be unfair to both girls.

"The primary consideration was that adoption shifted the burden of responsibility for this situation onto the children," she said.

"The burden is not the children's to bear. The burden is ours alone."

If the burden is yours “alone”, why are you trying to impose part of it on the doctor?

I admit I have little sympathy for the plaintiffs.  The two earn over $100,000 annually, which places them in the upper income echelons of Australian families, yet they want someone else to subsidise their child-rearing expenses.

The doctor acknowledges that he mistakenly inserted two embryos, but this civil suit is uncalled for, in my view.  The couple made several unsuccessful attempts to conceive via artificial insemination and finally turned to IVF in desperation.  They are very fortunate to have babies at all.  Instead of being thankful, however, they are acting like greedy ingrates.

A fine pair of parents, they’ll be.

h/t: Pearcey Report

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