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Both Maureen and Steven signed a clinic consent form directing that any unused embryos be donated for research. But a month before she sued Steven for divorce, Maureen told the hospital she didn't want the embryos destroyed. Her lawyer, Vincent Stempel, points out that she had surgery to create the embryos, while her ex-husband only donated sperm. "She went through a lot of physical pain to have these eggs extracted," he says. And, he notes, they may represent her last chance of becoming a biological mother...
...debate among husbands and wives: how many children to have. But Steven and Maureen Kass of Amityville, N.Y., bring something new to the issue: they're wrestling with the question five years after their divorce. The Kasses have five frozen embryos, made from his sperm and her eggs, left over from their married days of trying to conceive by in-vitro fertilization. Maureen, who is 40 and childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight...
...desire to raise a family was one of the things that first brought the Kasses together. Steven, who runs an engineering company with his brother, met Maureen at a friend's engagement party in 1986. They began dating the following spring. They agreed they wanted children. But after their marriage, they had trouble conceiving. The couple spent five years and $75,000 at a Long Island fertility clinic; Maureen was implanted with fertilized eggs at least nine times. The efforts produced nothing, and the marriage collapsed. "I think she felt that if we were not going to have kids...
...Sunday morning there will be a Panel Discussion about the Asian economic crisis and Japan's pivotal role in the region, with Professor of Government Steven Vogel and Kaoruhiko Suzuki '71, a partner in charge of the Asia-Pacific Practice Group of the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Los Angeles...
...well within his rights, but the first whiff of a First Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with Barnes & Noble set to join the fight, it all makes for the kind of ding-dong courtroom diversion that Starr really doesn?t need right...