NYC woman had abortion at 20 weeks after paternity test only to find out lab was wrong
A Yonkers woman made the hellish decision to abort her baby after getting the results of a paternity test — only to find out months later the results were wrong, she said in a lawsuit.Now instead of planning a baby shower and getting ready for her daughter’s impending birth, the woman is dealing with the emotional wreckage of losing her child and her long-term relationship because of the alleged error by Winn Health Labs in the Bronx and Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center, according to court papers.“My daughter would have been born on the 17th” of April, she told The Post through tears.
“I’m grieving.“I just have a lot of emotions.These results were the reason why I decided to do what I did.”The administrative assistant, 28, and her then-fiancé had been struggling to get pregnant when they broke up for three weeks last summer in part because of the “stress and aggravation” from their inability to conceive, she said in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.
During the hiatus, she had sex with someone else but used a condom during the encounter, claimed the woman, who asked to remain anonymous.She and the fiancé got back together, and by August, she was pregnant for the first time — and confident her longtime love was the dad.“I was tracking my ovulation,” she said.But wanting to be completely sure — and not wanting to alert her fiancé to the sex she had with another man during their break — the woman sought a paternity test with the other man.The first two tests costs a total of more than $1,000 and results were inconclusive.So the pair found DNA Diagnostics Center online, a company which boasts having done more than 20 million tests which can be used in court and touts itself as “world leaders in DNA testing.” In October, the two traveled to a Winn Health Labs facility on Randall Avenue in the Bronx, which is at the rear of a hair salon, to provide samples for the testing to be done by DNA Diagnostics, according to Manhattan Federa...