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Mark Strasser

Frozen embryos

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The Next Battleground? Personhood, Privacy, And Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Mark Strasser Mar 2012

The Next Battleground? Personhood, Privacy, And Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Mark Strasser

Mark Strasser

Personhood statutes and amendments have been proposed in several states. As a general matter, they establish as a matter of state law that legal personhood begins at conception. Such laws may have implications for state policies concerning abortion and contraception, and will have implications for other areas of law including state policies related to assisted reproductive technologies. Yet, some of the ways in which these different areas of law might be affected are not well understood and thus are explored here.


You Take The Embryos But I Get The House (And The Business): Recent Trends In Awards Involving Embryos Upon Divorce, Mark Strasser Feb 2009

You Take The Embryos But I Get The House (And The Business): Recent Trends In Awards Involving Embryos Upon Divorce, Mark Strasser

Mark Strasser

Various state courts have been asked to decide who should have control of remaining frozen embryos upon divorce. Different models have been proposed, ranging from enforcement of prior agreements to balancing the needs and desires of the parties to requiring both parties to agree before implantation can take place. This article discusses some of these models, concluding both that the enforcement of the initial agreement model is preferable to the others proposed and that one of the most popular current models--the contemporaneous consent model—is a public policy disaster that should be repudiated at the earliest opportunity.