SAN FRANCISCO — A Bay Area woman fighting to save her frozen embryos testified Thursday that she didn’t carefully review a consent form that provided for the embryos to be destroyed in the event she and her husband divorced.

Dr. Mimi Lee, a breast cancer survivor and former anesthesiologist, acknowledged that she and then-husband Stephen Findley checked a box authorizing the UC-San Francisco fertility center to “thaw and discard” the embryos but said she believed her decision could be changed.

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