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In 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 SocietyConceptionThis influential opinion was copied throughout the United States allowing civil actions and wrongful death claims on behalf of children who suffered…
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LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentAbortion is the removal of the embryo or fetus from the womb, before birth can occur-either naturally or by induced labor. Prenatal development…
AbortionethicsReproductionReproductive RightsFetusJohann Friedrich Meckel studied abnormal animal and human anatomy in nineteenth century Germany in an attempt to explain embryological development.…
PeopleAnatomy, ComparativeEmbryologyBirth Defectsfetal developmentIn Jeter v. Mayo, the Court of Appeals of Arizona in 2005 held that a cryopreserved, three-day-old pre-embryo is not a person for purposes of Arizona…
LawCryopreservationEmbryo transplantationFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroThis influential opinion by famed jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was copied by courts throughout the United States. For over sixty years, courts…
LawFetusbioethicsArizona joined the majority of states that recognized wrongful death claims on behalf of a viable fetus, regardless of whether the child was born…
LawFetusReproductionThe implication of the court's decision was that Thomas Doolan's identity or personhood existed at the embryo stage in vitro, thus the fact that he…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFetusFertilizationIn the case York v. Jones (1989), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was one of the first US courts to address a…
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