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This influential opinion was copied throughout the United States allowing civil actions and wrongful death claims on behalf of children who suffered…
LawFetusReproductionbioethicsThis 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…
LawFertilizationReproductionbioethicsThe 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 VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsThe 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 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 VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethicsPursuant to an express provision of the embryo disposition contract they both signed, a husband and wife had to petition the court for instructions…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationThe Massachusetts Supreme Court in a case of first impression decided that a prior written agreement between a husband and wife regarding the…
LawFertilizationReproductionReproductive RightsDescriptions of terms utilized in law articles. Terms like probable, questionable, and doubtful are defined and values of case precedents are…
LawThe term morphogenesis generally refers to the processes by which order is created in the developing organism. This order is achieved as…
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