Tracee Hutchinson’s column in the Melbourne Age concerns a case before Australia’s Supreme Court. A lesbian couple are suing their doctor for accidentally implanting twins instead of the single designer moppet they’d requested:

There is no greater pain than a family secret left untold once it is revealed and it is naive to think that these twins won’t some day find out their parents tried to prove in court that one of them wasn’t wanted…
The doctor has admitted he made a mistake. He’s been quoted as saying that he believes he should have reversed the procedure at the time he realised the mistake. But what if his attempts to reverse the procedure resulted in the loss of both embryos? What if neither of the embryos developed and another round of IVF were required at considerable emotional and financial expense? What if either or both of the embryos developed into a foetus that died in utero?

Up at the top of her column, Ms Hutchinson writes:

I can’t have been the only childless woman who felt a shudder of grief roll through her child-desiring body…

As Tim Blair notes, that’s quite a statement for a hitherto conventional Germaine Greer fan.