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...dilemma might have stumped even King Solomon: what to do with seven fertilized eggs of a divorcing Tennessee couple that are frozen at an in-vitro fertilization clinic in Knoxville. Mary Sue Davis, 29, is unable to conceive by natural means and wants custody of her "pre-born children" for future implantation. Junior Davis, 31, claims he is being "raped of my reproductive rights" by his estranged wife and insists on having a joint say on the future of the embryos. "I do not want a child of mine in a single-parent situation," he argued...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...
...case grew out of the decade-old technology of "test-tube babies," or in-vitro fertilization. The Davises became embroiled in the dispute after they were unable to have children and turned to in-vitro fertilization...
...in-vitro process, eggs are extracted surgically from a woman's body and mixed with sperm in a laboratory dish. Those that are fertilized can be implanted in the womb. Testimony indicated the success rate for the procedure averages about one in five...
...growing practice of in-vitro fertilization has raised a tangle of issues. Who has rights over the resulting embryo -- the doctor? the parents? And what rights does the embryo have...