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Renee Ghert-Zand, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Times of Israel
July 6, 2017

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[...] According to Harvard law professor and bioethics expert I. Glenn Cohen, there is no law that prohibits Nagel’s sperm donations. At the same time, there are not necessarily laws that will protect him from financial responsibility for resultant children — not that the laid-back Nagel seems to care.

“The oral agreements are unlikely to be interpreted to be contracts, but the specifics of the interactions would matter. Whether a written agreement would be binding varies from state to state. Some states enforce them, while others say the right of support belongs to a child and cannot be waived by parents,” Cohen explained to The Times of Israel in an email. [...]

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bioethics   health law policy   i. glenn cohen   reproductive rights   reproductive technologies