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Dov Fox

  • Health Law Policy

    The Legal Challenges of the Medicine of Miracles

    On September 10 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 University Press, 2019). Learn…

    The Legal Challenges of the Medicine of Miracles

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  • Assisted Reproduction Technologies

    What Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry?

    Accidents happen: Freezers fail. Samples are mislabeled. Embryos get switched. These may be first-world problems. But they’re not innocent, or harmless.

    What Happens When Reproductive Tech Like IVF Goes Awry?

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  • Assisted Reproduction Technologies

    How Technology is Changing Reproduction and the Law

    Failed abortions, switched donors, and lost embryos may be first-world problems, but these aren’t innocent lapses or harmless errors.

    How Technology is Changing Reproduction and the Law

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  • Assisted Reproduction Technologies

    The Legal Limbo of Lost Embryos

    More than once, the freezer tanks that secure families’ hopes have failed. Courts may fail these families too.

    The Legal Limbo of Lost Embryos

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  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    When Fertility Doctors Use Their Own Sperm, and Families Don’t Find Out for Decades

    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 aren’t barred by…

    When Fertility Doctors Use Their Own Sperm, and Families Don’t Find Out for Decades

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  • Assisted Reproduction Technologies

    Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Designing Inequality?

    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 diseases—sickle cell anemia,…

    Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Designing Inequality?

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  • Abortion

    Mass embryo destruction, reproductive never events, and the not-quite-Wild West

    By Dov Fox Information found in this new post by Dov Fox is also available in Slate’s March 19th article In Vitro Injuries: How should courts compensate would-be parents when assisted reproductive technology goes terribly…

    Mass embryo destruction, reproductive never events, and the not-quite-Wild West

  • Dov Fox

    What if Trump Censors Climate Science? Scientific Research Policy and Law under the Trump Administration

    Cross-posted from the Take Care blog. By Dov Fox Global warming embarrasses President Donald Trump’s insular creed of “America First.” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently confirmed all-time record-high temperatures and sea levels around the world.…

    What if Trump Censors Climate Science? Scientific Research Policy and Law under the Trump Administration

  • Dov Fox

    When is a juror too biased?

    A new Op-Ed by Bill of Health Contributor Dov Fox on CNN: The upcoming Supreme Court term promises to be a sleeper. Still down a justice, the court isn’t slated to hear its usual blockbusters…

    When is a juror too biased?