Illinois Divorce Law

Wednesday, 21 July 2004

Disputes erupt over embryos
Legal battles force estranged couples to choose what happens to potential children.
Chrisy and Jason Haltom are storing potential sons or daughters inside a liquid nitrogen tank at an Indianapolis laboratory.
The Indiana couple is saving three of the approximately 400,000 human embryos experts estimate have been frozen across America. Happily married and raising their first child, the pair can't imagine disagreeing on what should happen to the fertilized eggs.

But unhappier couples might find themselves in a legal thicket if they split up: Who owns the embryos?

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Monday, 14 July 2008 - 7:23 AM CDT

Name: "Sam"

Neither are they a part of an organism, like a heart, a kidney, or a skin cell. Nor again are they a disorganized aggregate, a mere clump of cells awaiting some magical transformation. Rather, a human embryo is a whole living member of the species Homo sapiens in the earliest stage of his or her natural development. Unless severely damaged, or denied or deprived of a suitable environment, a human being in the embryonic stage will, by directing its own integral organic functioning, develop himself or herself to the next more mature developmental stage, i.e., the fetal stage. The embryonic, fetal, child, and adolescent.

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