Nov. 18 -Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Professor Scott Shepard comments:
Advances in science are outpacing the evolution of the law. More and more children nowadays are being conceived in ways that would have sounded like something out of Aldous
Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” only a short time ago.
But many states do not have statutes that take into account the situation of posthumously
conceived children, offspring conceived with a dead parent’s genetic material through the use of such reproductive technology as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization.
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