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Attempts by the New York legislature to make abortion a crime regardless of the stage of gestation were permanently frustrated because the court…
LawAbortionReproductionThe Court settled the question left open from the case of Commonwealth v. Bangs that it must be proved a woman was "quick with child" in order for…
LawAbortionReproductionDescriptions of terms utilized in law articles. Terms like probable, questionable, and doubtful are defined and values of case precedents are…
LawThis 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 VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsThis 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 court treated frozen embryos possessed by an in vitro fertilization clinic as property owned by the parents and held under a bailment contract by…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationThe 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 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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