00:02Sasha Savransky grew up in Coffs Harbour with her mum and twin sister.
00:07At the time, she didn't know she had a whole other family, just a short drive away.
00:13That's my family home, and then if we just do a jump over to this little clearing here,
00:18that's where the biological family live now.
00:22Last year, she sent her DNA to the genealogy tracing website Ancestry.com.
00:28Weeks later, the website matched her with a stranger, saying it was her maternal aunt.
00:36Together, the pair uncovered a life-altering error.
00:41Sasha Savransky and her twin sister were the biological children of a couple they'd never met.
00:48That's really when it started to sink in, perhaps something's gone awry.
00:54She and her twin sister then told their mother, who birthed and raised them.
00:59They just sort of said it was a mix-up mum.
01:03We're not your biological children.
01:05I said, what?
01:06You know, what are you talking about?
01:07The families still don't know how the mistake happened.
01:11Penny Savransky's embryo transfer was at Royal North Shore Hospital in 1995.
01:17But the hospital says it didn't run the clinic then.
01:21A private company did.
01:23It was sold in the early 2000s.
01:26And that company was later acquired by Virtus Health, which also denies responsibility.
01:33Has anyone apologised to you?
01:36No, because no one's owning it.
01:38No one's accepting responsibility for us.
01:40What do you want our politicians and regulators who oversee IVF to know?
01:45I want them to see the stakes of what happens when there's a mistake.
01:49I think IVF is just incredible.
01:51I wouldn't be here without it.
01:53But you just have to get it right.
01:55I don't know about this.
01:56I know what I'm talking about right now.
01:56What am I really wondering to take a look at this class?
01:57Dr.
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