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The Boozer Family Story Omits The Children They Sacrificed 

Out of the dozens of lives they had created, two would be usable.

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This month you will watch Cameron and Cayden Boozer light up the March Madness tournament for Duke. The twin boys are the sons of Carlos Boozer, the legendary Duke basketball player who helped lead the Blue Devils to a national championship in 2001. Inevitably, you will hear a lot about not only how they play but about their story.

ESPN has featured the family before. You will hear again about how the twins’ parents, CeCe and Carlos, went through the IVF process to find savior siblings for their oldest son Carmani, who was born with sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell is an inherited blood disorder where red blood cells become sickle-shaped, clump together, and block blood flow. It causes incredible, severe pain, can shorten life expectancy dramatically, and affects the African-American community with overwhelming disproportionality. Both Carlos and CeCe carried the recessive gene without knowing it, and were heartbroken when their oldest son was born with it. That heartbreak led them to do everything in their power to heal him.

Everything in their power turned out to be a lot. IVF and a genetic screening process called preimplantation genetic diagnosis allowed them to create embryos en masse. Reports vary on whether they attempted to fertilize 26 or 34 eggs, but either way it was a substantial number. Out of as many as 34 that were potentially fertilized, an unknown number were viable, of the viable ten were sickle cell free and of the sickle cell free, two ended up also being a match for Carmani. These two were selected specifically to harvest their cord........

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