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The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and…
LawbioethicsHuman DevelopmentThe Center for Reproductive Health was a fertility clinic run by a partnership of world-renowned fertility specialists from 1986 to 1995. The Center…
OrganizationReproductive RightsOrganizationsReproductionbioethicsThis influential opinion was copied throughout the United States allowing civil actions and wrongful death claims on behalf of children who suffered…
LawFetusReproductionbioethicsThe court decided a child of in vitro fertilization born with cystic fibrosis does not have the right to sue for wrongful life even in the presence…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsIn a dispute over frozen embryos during a divorce case, the court decided the wife's fundamental right to not procreate mandated destruction of the…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsThis case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood in the context of in vitro fertilization of a human embryo. It laid a…
LawFertilizationReproductionbioethicsThis influential opinion by famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was copied by courts throughout the United States. For over sixty years, courts…
LawFetusbioethicsIn Arizona, statutes that protect persons, such as the wrongful death statute, will not be interpreted by the courts to grant personhood status to…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsIn a case of first impression in the state of New York, the highest state court decided that a priori written agreement between progenitors of frozen…
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