Several Southern California couples say the embryos they created to start their families were moved without their knowledge and their procedures were halted without warning.
“I feel like they were kidnapped. I don’t know where they are,” said Bernice Cervantes of Tehachapi.
Cervantes and her husband, Curtis Hanson, are among 26 patients suing fertility specialist Dr. Brian David Acacio. The lawsuit alleges Acacio transferred embryos from his Laguna Niguel office to his Bakersfield clinic without patients’ consent after he was evicted from the Laguna Niguel location for failing to pay rent for more than a year…