What If My Test-Tube Babies Were Swapped in the Lab?

My heart goes out to Donna Fasano. She's the New York City woman who was reluctantly thrust into the headlines last week because of an infertility treatment mix-up that impregnated her with two embryos: one created by her egg and her husband's sperm, the other by an African-American couple who had been seeing the same specialist at the same time. She carried both embryos to term, giving birth to two beautiful but noticeably different boys and raising them for three months, during which time they shared the same crib, the same swing, the same parents. Then when a black couple came...

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