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Judge rules frozen embryos are property, cites slavery law
Doctor Katarzyna Koziol injects sperm specifically into an egg throughout in-vitro fertilization (IVF) process known as Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) at Novum clinic in Warsaw Oct 26, 2010. | REUTERS/Kacper Pempel A Virginia judge cited a 19th-century regulation about slave ownership in ruling that human embryos can lawfully be deemed residence or “chattel.” Fairfax County Circuit Court Decide Richard Gardiner issued the preliminary viewpoint last month in a circumstance involving a divorced couple’s dispute over embryos they saved alongside one another. The pair, Honeyhline Heidemann and Jason Heidemann, separated in 2017 and divorced in 2018. The ex-spouse is 45 and infertile because of to most cancers treatments and wishes to use the…
