On Friday, June 14, the Texas Supreme Court declined to consider a case that asked the Court to determine whether frozen embryos are persons or property under Texas law....more
Under current US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance, sexually active gay and bisexual men are prohibited from anonymously donating sperm. The FDA is expected to reverse this longstanding practice and adopt a system...more
Undergoing fertility treatment is an emotional journey. And between the invasive procedures and medications, Assisted Reproductive Technologies can take a tremendous toll on a family, even when things go as planned. However,...more
In the past several months we have written a couple of times about the world of anonymous parentage and the conflict it has unintentionally ignited. In October we published “23 and EEEEEE” excerpting from the Philadelphia...more
We recently wrote about the matter of searching one’s genetic past and some of the unusual history which that kind of testing can reveal. The Wall Street Journal’s January 3 edition informs us that in an age of advancing...more
In its recent opinion in Warren County Department of Social Services ex rel. Glenn v. Garrelts, the North Carolina Court of Appeals addressed an unusual choice of law issue. In the recitation below, for ease of reading, I...more
In the burgeoning global fertility services sector, sophisticated investors may see opportunities to consolidate and deliver greater success by providing financial discipline as well as professional managerial support. ...more
In today’s modern world of technology, how babies are created is greatly different than in the yesterdays of our parents’ world. Today, there are sperm donors, egg donors, gestational carriers, in vitro fertilization, to...more