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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 established the legal framework that governs infertility treatment, medical services ancillary to…
LawEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900Human reproductive technologyIn June 2017, the Iowa Supreme Court decided the case Plowman v. Fort Madison Community Hospital, or Plowman v. FMCH, and ruled that women who gave…
LawWrongful lifeWrongful BirthAbnormalities, HumanIowaIn the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and…
LawUnited States. Supreme CourtContraceptionEmployer-sponsored health insuranceEmployer-sponsored health insurance--Law and legislationIn the case Whitner v. South Carolina in 1997, the South Carolina State Supreme Court defined the concept of a child to include viable fetuses. This…
LawEmbryosReproductive RightsPregnancyAbortionIn Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroAmerican Fertility SocietyConceptionIn 1918, the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany broadened the justification physicians could use to prescribe contraceptives to married…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsThis influential opinion was copied throughout the United States allowing civil actions and wrongful death claims on behalf of children who suffered…
LawFetusReproductionbioethicsIn the 1930 US federal court case United States v. Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware Dennett was cleared of all charges of violating the anti-obscenity…
LawObscenity (Law)Obscenity (Law)--United StatesReproductive health--Law and legislationCommunication in reproductive healthThe Supreme Court of California reversed the Superior Court of Fresno County's decision to dismiss the Turpins' claims in the case Turpin v. Sortini…
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