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Treating embryos more like persons will ultimately result in fewer people born and fewer families formed.
By Dov Fox On September 10, 2019, at 4:00 PM, join Prof. Fox in a discussion of his new book, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medical Mix Ups Are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (Oxford…
This is an excerpt of an article by Alaina Lancaster that originally appeared on Law.com. Read the full interview here. After thousands of dollars of in vitro fertilization treatments and nine months of pregnancy, a…
Accidents happen: Freezers fail. Samples are mislabeled. Embryos get switched. These may be first-world problems. But they’re not innocent, or harmless.
Failed abortions, switched donors, and lost embryos may be first-world problems, but these aren’t innocent lapses or harmless errors.
More than once, the freezer tanks that secure families’ hopes have failed. Courts may fail these families too.
Though a booming enterprise, the fertility industry remains distinct from other medical practices: it offers patients little recourse for medical mistakes and misconduct.
By Dov Fox An Idaho U.S. District Court ruled this week that parents can provisionally sue the fertility doctor who, in 1980, used his own sperm to create their daughter—just so long as their claims…
By Dov Fox A recent web series sparked controversy with the headline that “Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.” The online articles make the case that disparate access to frozen embryo screening for debilitating…
By Dov Fox Bill of Health contributors Glenn Cohen and Dov Fox were featured in this week’s news coverage of novel claims related to recent freezer malfunctions at two major fertility clinics. A class-action suit…
