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A 6-month-old baby girl conceived via in vitro fertilization and accidentally implanted in the wrong womb will be raised by the woman who birthed her instead of the biological parents who commissioned her creation, a \u201cmutually devised custody agreement\u201d in Florida determined this week.<\/p>\n

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The agreement, publicized on June 15, confirmed Steven Mills and Tiffany Score will \u201ccontinue as the permanent custodial parents\u201d of the unnamed baby girl despite not sharing any of her DNA. The decision comes months after the couple filed a lawsuit against the Fertility Center of Orlando after learning that the child Score gestated for nine months was not their own.<\/p>\n

Score and Mills, a white couple who used their own sperm and eggs to commission embryos in 2020, were shocked in December 2025 when Score birthed a baby girl who was \u201c100 percent South Asian.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTragically, while both JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE are racially Caucasian, Baby Doe displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,\u201d the couple\u2019s January 2026 lawsuit .<\/p>\n

completed by the fertility facility due to the suit confirmed that the baby belonged to an unnamed client who was the Fertility Center of Orlando\u2019s \u201conly other patient in March 2020, when Score and Mills had embryos created and frozen.\u201d<\/p>\n

By then, Mills and Score had not only birthed and cared for the baby girl for months, but they had also bonded with her. <\/p>\n

\u201cOnly one thing is as absolutely certain as it was on the day our daughter was born: We will love and will be this child\u2019s parents forever,\u201d they wrote in a statement. <\/p>\n

After some deliberation, Mills, Score, and the baby\u2019s biological parents reached a \u201cmutually devised custody agreement\u201d that confirmed Mills and Score would raise the child as their own. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad the parties have reached an agreement while this child is relatively young,\u201d 9th Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber declared.<\/p>\n

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Despite the judge\u2019s optimism that the baby escaped the harm of a years-long custody battle, there was never a good solution here.<\/p>\n

Separating the baby girl from Score, the only mother she\u2019s known in the womb and out, to reunite her with her biological mother would likely cause all of the parties involved irrevocable physical, emotional, and mental harm. Allowing Mills and Score to keep the baby girl despite sharing none of her DNA, similarly, would inflict \u00a0that would not affect her if she were born and raised by her married biological parents.<\/p>\n

Litigation against the Fertility Center of Orlando, which reportedly shuttered its doors in May, is ongoing, but as Mills and Score\u2019s initial suit noted, \u201cthere is no adequate remedy at law for the ongoing loss, injury and damage\u201d they suffered as a result of this situation. The biggest losers in this situation, however, aren\u2019t Mills and Score or even the baby girl\u2019s genetic parents. The biggest loser is the child, whose life was treated as a commodity that could be implanted or thrown away depending on the will of the adults who commissioned her long before her conception in a lab.<\/p>\n

Embryos created via IVF are treated as disposable, and a majority (93\u00a0to\u00a097\u00a0percent) go unused. Those test tube babies that are not dissected under the guise of research or discarded after notoriously unreliable grading revealed traits deemed less desirable are stored indefinitely in cryopreservation tanks.<\/p>\n

For five years, the girl embryo conceived in a lab in 2020 sat in a freezer untouched. It\u2019s unclear if she would have been given a chance at implantation and birth by her biological parents had there not been \u201claboratory-clinic errors.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, to this day, Mills and Score\u2019s sole remaining embryo sits in a cryopreservation tank waiting to be implanted. Questions about what happened to their other embryo, which was supposed to be implanted in Score in March 2025, \u201care still unanswered and are even more unlikely to ever be answered,\u201d the couple wrote in an April 2026 statement. <\/p>\n

Media and reproductive technology activists pretend that IVF mixups like this one, serial surrogacy and abuse,\u00a0IVF-addicted 68-year-olds,\u00a0pedophiles buying proximity\u00a0to children, and\u00a0rent-a-womb racketeering rings\u00a0are one-offs. On the contrary, the fertility industry enables and even promotes arrangements that inarguably harm children because it is profitable to cater to adults\u2019 desires. <\/p>\n

With assisted reproductive technology, anyone and everyone, regardless of their relationship status or sexuality, can buy their way into parenthood\u00a0regardless of\u00a0children\u2019s natural rights. The consequences of this commodification include normalized eugenics,\u00a0forced orphanhood, deliberate ignorance of women\u2019s health solutions, the\u00a0erasure of women\u00a0in reproduction, fertility fraud, more than a\u00a0million indefinitely frozen embryos, millions more discarded embryos, and\u00a0now IVF custody battles that put babies like the one Mills and Score are raising in impossible and painful situations.<\/p>\n

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