Wrongful Death Suit Allowed Over Embryo
From: Larry Glazerman (dean@thehuffpeople.net)
Sun Feb 20 11:31:05 2005
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Wrongful Death Suit Allowed Over Embryo
The National Law Journal
A Chicago judge has ruled that a husband and wife will be allowed to proceed
with a wrongful death suit against a fertility clinic that allegedly
inadvertently discarded their fertilized egg. Lawyers say courts have
previously considered cases involving embryos to be property rights or
negligence claims, but a wrongful death action presents a new frontier that
could affect abortion law, stem cell research, genetic testing and a wide range
of other issu
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1108389933276
Dean Huffman
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