Nonviable: How One Word Deceives Parents and Kills Thousands of Children

Shannon Petersen and her husband did exactly what the doctors recommended. They sent their five embryos for genetic testing. They waited.

When the lab called back, Shannon was told that her embryos were abnormal. All five of them. The message, in her words, felt like being told they were “garbage, essentially.”

The Petersens took out a $15,000 loan and tr…