By Brie Stimson | Fox News
A Florida couple is suing a fertility clinic weeks after the woman gave birth to a baby that allegedly isn’t biologically their child.
Steven Mills and Tiffany Score gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” in December, but when the couple, who are both White, realized their new daughter appeared to be “racially non-Caucasian,” they ordered genetic testing that proved she wasn’t theirs, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
The lawsuit claims the Fertility Center of Orlando somehow implanted the wrong embryo in Score’s uterus five years after the couple had their embryos frozen at the clinic.
“This case is a sobering reminder that assisted reproductive technology has far outpaced the legal safeguards designed to protect families and children. Here, in Arizona, the law recognizes parentage through genetics, gestation, and intent, and our courts require that decisions affecting children be guided by the best-interests standard that prioritizes a child’s stability, attachment, and long-term well-being.’
‘When a fertility clinic error results in a child being born to the wrong parents, the law is forced to confront competing truths: the profound bond formed through pregnancy and caregiving, and the equally significant rights of biological parents. These situations cannot be resolved by DNA alone. This is precisely why with science continuously developing, lawmakers must strengthen oversight and accountability in fertility medicine, with clearer statutory protections for parentage, transparency, and error prevention. Families should not bear lifelong consequences of systemic failures in an industry entrusted with creating life because the law failed to keep pace with the science that helped create them.”
– Kelsey Fischer, family law attorney at Rose Law Group
