Embryo Mix Up

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I found another great article from World Magazine, Embryo Mix Up Leads to Abortion.

This is most indeed a terrible mix up after looking at the results that came out of it. It started with two women visting the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services (CARS) in Connecticut. They both had eggs extracted, fertilized, frozen and stored for future implantation. Due to a mix up of identity cards the embroy from one woman was implanted into the other woman. When the other woman found out she filed a 2 million dollar claim and later she was able to sue the state of connecticut and received $45,000. The woman that was implanted aborted the child and it seemed to not be a viable pregnancy.

This seems to me a confusing set of curcumstances that caused everyone involved to take some sort of action that may or may not have been the best choice. This reminds me of the passage in James 4:1-2, "From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust and ye have not: ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not".

These women on here are certainly lusting and desiring to have. The woman who's embroy was implanted in another woman was yes upset but also was very greedy since she not only tried to obtain money from CARS but sued the whole state. And a question that is raised here is Connecticut to blame for this? The other woman was at first lusting for a child because she could not have one then she lusted for comfort and freedom from this problem of a child that was not suppose to be hers.

As counselors we need to look at the motives behind which people do things they later regret and especially in the case of abortion. There is a lot of pressure from family, friends, or the husband/boyfriend but most importantly it is the person's view themselves: am I going to accept this child and by the grace of God nurture it and help it to grow and live, set it up for adoption, or take the easy route and abort it supposidly ridding oneself of the problem entirely?