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Divorced Couple Fighting in Court over Frozen Embryos

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday July 15 2015, @09:25PM   
from the irreconcilable-differences dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A court battle between a divorced couple over the future of their frozen embryos began Monday with an attorney for the former husband accusing the woman of using the dispute to get money.

Dr. Mimi Lee, 46, a pianist and part-time anesthesiologist, married Stephen Findley, a wealthy executive, five years ago. Shortly before the wedding, Lee learned she had breast cancer.

Unsure whether the disease would make it impossible for her to have children, the couple went to a fertility center, where Lee's eggs and Findley's sperm created five embryos, now frozen.

Findley filed for divorce two years ago and wants the embryos destroyed. Lee, now infertile, wants to implant the embryos into a surrogate and have a baby. Without the embryos, she will never have a child who shares her genes.

If the embryos are implanted and carry to term, the ex-husband becomes a father without consent. If the embryos are destroyed, the ex-wife is denied the deep need to procreate. The embryos themselves have issues either way. Modern biomedical ethics are complex.

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• Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:33PM

  by Freeman (732) on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:33PM (#210199) Journal

  The NSA's mass surveillance is possibly even worse than the Patriot Act or maybe just a symptom of it.

  The right thing to do would be to allow her to have the child(ren) and to exempt him from child support. Though, as has been stated in the discussions, that isn't cut and dry either. The government could still go after him for child responsibilities even, if she signed an agreement stating that he was off the hook. Though, that would only likely happen, if she were to need financial assistance from the government.

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• Re:too bad she can't release him from child suppor (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:35PM

  by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Thursday July 16 2015, @10:35PM (#210202)

  The potential child support is really the issue for me. It wouldn't matter if she had the child otherwise.

  Though, that would only likely happen, if she were to need financial assistance from the government.

  Happens all the time.

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