The good doctor, having done the implanting, should be responsible financially for the care of the offspring.
I’m sure that he has his patients sign a release and also they probably have to sign a promise to “reduce the number of fetuses” prior to birth. So the mom can either kill her children or just suck it up and deal with it. Evil.
I may consider bringing suit against him as an LA County resident.
I believe I have standing.
It is the patients undergoing IVF who ultimately choose the number of embryos to replace, not the doctors, unless the doctor disagrees with the number and simply refuses to.
In the United States, the final decision is generally made on the day of transfer—after consulting the embryologist, the reproductive endocrinologist may suggest to the patient a number to replace, or may leave it entirely up to the patient. Most patients are not crazy, however, and are informed of the risks of replacing more than three.
In any case, the embryos belong to the patient, not the clinic.