What: NBC News looks at errors made at fertility clinics, ranging from embryos being mislabeled and destroyed to being swapped and given to the wrong patient. In the last five years they found more than 300 lawsuits have been filed against IVF clinics for mistakes. Most are due to storage failures, around a quarter are miscommunications or mistakes. One lawyer interviewed said they have represented more than 1,000 people against fertility clinics, and the vast majority are never known publicly because they settle before trial. And one bioethics expert said unlike other areas of medicine, IVF clinics aren’t required to track mistakes.

Key line: “I do think the industry at large has gotten away from human care and patient care, and it has become big business. That level of carelessness is the only way that I could wrap my mind around someone taking the potential for human life and just – and just throwing it away,” said Marisa Calhoun, a women who had 16 embryos accidentally destroyed by her fertility clinic.

Source: NBC News