in vitro fertilization
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Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether in vitro embryos are property
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WASHINGTON – The Colorado Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case next week on in vitro fertilization that is stretching child custody issues into times before fetuses enter their mothers’ wombs. It also is drawing support or criticism nationwide from groups that seek to protect rights of women, parents or unborn children. In the…
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Colorado Supreme Court to take up state’s first-ever fight over embryos
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Who owns embryos after a divorce? The answer isn’t simple. Sometime in the next year, the Colorado Supreme Court is taking up the first-ever challenge to a long-standing state law that keeps embryos from being implanted once a couple is divorced. Mandy and Drake Rooks have three children, the result of in-vitro fertilization. Mandy Rooks…
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A Colorado ex-couple’s custody battle — over property, or life?
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One of the more compelling beginning-of-life test cases that you’ve probably never heard of – one that arguably lends new meaning to “pro-life” and “pro-choice” – is playing out in Colorado’s courts. It combines latter-day cryogenic technology with an old-fashioned, bitter divorce, and it centers on a rather unusual custody battle. And even though the…
