Twins who were separated at birth and raised by different parents, met later and married but were forced to break up when they discovered their true identities.
It was a tragedy for the couple involved, a terrible tragedy, according to David Alton, a member of the British Upper House.The above said couple became victims of incest quite unwittingly.
In the course of the debate on a proposed new law on vitro fertilisation (IVF),he raised the above case.He also highlighted the need for children to know who their parents are.The proposed IVF may lead to similar tragedies since the biological identity of one parent of a child born of IVF could be removed from the birth certificate.
The above said twins sufferred due to the fact that they were never told about their original parentage.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, now working its way through the British Parliament, recognised same sex couples as legal parents of children conceived through the use of donated sperm, eggs or embryos.
The Government should make way to the children born through the above said methods to know who their biological father is, as per the argument of David Alton.