The real victims here are the children.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

A California couple suing a fertility clinic after discovering they gave birth to someone else's daughter.

Apparently, there was a mix-up during their impetro fertilization procedure in 2019.

After a DNA test proved the mistake, the couple returned the baby girl to her genetic parents

and returned for their own genetic daughter, whom they'd never met. Now, this mind-boggling story is about a tragedy made possible by a

culture quick to accept technology on the basis of if we could do something, not whether we should

do something. The focus of the news coverage so far has been on the parents, who were all meant

to assume of the story's real victims. And while this was certainly a heartbreaking experience, no one seems to be asking,

what will this do to the children?

However, we choose to engage assistive reproductive technologies will never do it well

if our focus is only on adult happiness rather than what's best for the children.

Just because we want to and we can doesn't mean we should.

For the Colson Center,

I'm John Stone Street with The Point.