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Making Preconception Tort Theory Crisper, Mark Strasser
Making Preconception Tort Theory Crisper, Mark Strasser
Marquette Law Review
More and more individuals seeking to expand their families make use of
someone else’s gametes to help create a child. Unsurprisingly, those
considering the use of donated or purchased gametes often seek reassurance
that the use of those gametes will not create an increased risk that a child
thereby produced will have a severe disease. Sometimes, because of negligence
or recklessness, gametes are used that result in children having severe disease
where that outcome would have been avoided though the use of reasonable
care. Regrettably, courts addressing whether liability may be imposed in such
cases have sometimes misunderstood and misapplied …