Mary Had a Little...

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Microscopic, they’re hard to tell one from another. Labels on tiny containers have a way of coming loose when stored at low temperature, and hand-scrawled notations can be difficult to read under the best of circumstances. Neither do color codes guarantee absence of error; not everyone who’s color-blind knows it. And, when you know what you’re looking at—or think you do—you don’t always see what’s there.

In short, it was the sort of mistake anyone could have made.

As the head was smaller than the usual human infant’s, it was an easy delivery, the only complication being what to say on the birth certificate.

Mary and her live-in partner are suing the fertility clinic.

Sensing possible theological implications—Lamb of God, plus the fortuitous name of the mother (if indeed she can thus be described)—various religious bodies weighed in with opinions, some of which conflicted with others. However, the fact of immaculate conception was not in dispute, sterilized glassware and rubber gloves having been used throughout that part of the process.

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