{"id":9586,"date":"2010-10-17T02:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T02:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2014-10-01T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:12:12","slug":"white-mother-given-mixed-race-sperm-in-ivf-loses-compensation-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj.c5806\">White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Medical Journal<br \/>\n<\/a>Volume 341, Number 5806<br \/>\n2010-10-15<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj.c5806\" target=\"_blank\">10.1136\/bmj.c5806<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clare Dyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled \u201cCaucasian (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Coloureds\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Coloured<\/a>)\u201d during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_vitro_fertilisation\" target=\"_blank\">in vitro fertilisation<\/a> have failed in a compensation claim at the High Court in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s mother, who brought the case on their behalf, claimed that their quality of life was adversely affected because they looked markedly different from their parents and had quite different skin colour from each other. She said that they were subject to \u201cabusive and derogatory comment and hurtful name calling from other children, causing emotional upset.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/341\/bmj.c5806.full\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>[Note from Steven F. Riley]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Admittedly from a cursory glance, this article is perhaps the kind that belongs on the front page of\u00a0 a supermarket tabloid.\u00a0 However, the plaintiff\u2019s claim of \u201cabusive and derogatory comment and hurtful name calling from other children, causing emotional upset.\u201d because of \u201cdifferently looking\u201d children does seem to merit some kind of thoughtful and intelligent commentary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Needless to say, millions of\u00a0families with \u201cdifferently looking\u201d children by the way of \u201ccorrectly labeled\u201d sperm and egg rendezvous\u2014or by adoption\u2014face the prospect \u201cabuse and derogatory\u201d comments every day.\u00a0 Thus\u00a0a successful claim might have laid down a very,\u00a0very\u00a0interesting precedent.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim British Medical Journal Volume 341, Number 5806 2010-10-15 DOI: 10.1136\/bmj.c5806 Clare Dyer Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled \u201cCaucasian (Cape Coloured)\u201d during in vitro fertilisation have failed in a compensation claim at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,1467,8,10],"tags":[4173,4174,4175],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-law","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-british-medical-journal","tag-clare-dyer","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}