In vitro fertilization (IVF), despite all of its functional, ethical, and moral pitfalls, is often pitched as a means to build a family. In 47-year-old Erin Millender’s case, IVF tore her family apart before it even began.
As the New York Times detailed last week, Millender is pregnant with her ex-husband’s child after she secretly implanted one of the couple’s IVF-created embryos before he filed an appeal requesting a court revisit a judgement that awarded his former wife custody of their frozen, unborn children. But the story doesn’t start there.
