A lesbian couple from British Columbia divided all their assets when they broke up in 2006 but forgot about 13 tubes of sperm that were being stored in a sperm bank.
Tag: reproductive laws
45th UN Commission on Population and Development
23-27 APRIL 2012 | UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed the need to provide reproductive health care for young people, as well as give them access to the necessary information and the means to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence.
In Stem Cell Suit Appeal, Arguments Over Technicalities
Opponents of federally funded human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research returned to a U.S. appeals court today to argue that such research should be banned, despite two earlier court decisions that it is legal. The discussion suggested that the three-judge panel’s decision may turn on a technical question: whether the court is obliged to defer to its own previous ruling.
Last Ditch Effort to Pass Personhood Legislation Fails in Oklahoma
Legislation to define an unborn child to include “the offspring of human beings from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development” never made it to a final vote in the Oklahoma House. SB1433, was approved by the Oklahoma Senate in February and later amended by a House committee, but Republican House leaders refused to bring the controversial bill to a vote late last week after an unprecedented number of amendments were filed on the bill in attempts to protect vital forms of reproductive care.
Personhood Bill Showdown Doesn’t Materialize:Proponents Fear Measure Sidelined
An anticipated showdown vote on Senate Bill 1433 – the “personhood” bill – didn’t happen Wednesday, and legislative leaders may be trying to stifle the issue for the year, proponents and opponents say.
Contraceptive Coverage Bill Scaled Back in Arizona
A bill that would have allowed any Arizona employer to deny health care coverage of contraception for religious reasons has been changed, allowing only religious entities to opt out of the coverage.
Calling for RMNCH action at G8/G20
With just one month until President Barack Obama hosts G8 leaders at Camp David, The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health is joining other leading development organizations in a social media campaign to encourage political will towards RMNCH among a number of key issues at this high level meeting.
PA Appeals Court Upholds Awarding of Embryos to Wife
For the first time, a Pennsylvania appeals court has confronted the complex question of who gets custody of embryos, ruling this week in favor of a Chester County woman who hopes to give birth using frozen embryos that her estranged husband wants destroyed.
Who Is a Parent? Surrogate Technology Outpaces Law
Technology means someone who never thought they’d be able to conceive can use a sperm donor, an egg donor and a surrogate — a woman who bears a child for someone else. But the law has not kept pace with technology, and with so many people involved, a key question remains: Who is a legal parent?
Surrogacy Experts Help Navigate Murky Legal Waters
According to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, more than 1,400 U.S. babies were born this way in 2010, and many more such births are thought to go unreported. This small, but fast-growing field is fraught with risk, and often intense coordination is the only way to avoid a legal nightmare.