When Women Fail Maternity Tests: The Fascinating World of Natural Chimerism

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Several years ago a woman named Lydia Fairchild applied for welfare. She was pregnant and had two children. They forced her to take a DNA test…which showed that she was not the mother of her own children. The children she carried and gave birth to. Fairchild was accused of welfare fraud and illegal surrogacy. Social services threatened to take the children. Her…