A similar case happened years ago, and the gestational mother sued the shit out of the doctor who implanted another couple’s embryo in her - specifically because he didn’t tell her about the mixup until the baby had been born, because he didn’t want to risk her deciding to abort it and spare herself the eventual…

No, it’s both. They think the embryos and the women carrying them are the property of the impregnating males and that it should be his decision whether to carry the child to term or eliminate it to spare him from 18 years of child support payments.

An actual TV series on The Learning Channel or one of those works based entirely on these cases. You assume the women are all morons, and then you watch and see a series of medical anomalies. Bleeding every month so she thought she was having periods, or a habitually rregular cycle skipping periods all the time.…

My cousin told me that a day or two before our grandmother died, she was talking to her own late mother and sister: “But Mama, I’m not ready to go... Shut up, JoAnne!”

According to British friends, there were a few seconds in the version aired in the UK that were apparently snipped for the American audience that made it seem clear that Pamuk went for anal penetration specifically to preserve her technical virginity.