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Article: Court settles embryo imbroglio. (New York)(Brief Article)
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- December 1, 1997
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A New York hospital has won custody of a divorced couple's five frozen embryos, according to a state appellate court ruling. (Kass v. Kass, No. 95-02615 (N.Y. App. Div. Sept. 8, 1997).)
The embryos, which will be used for research, will remain with the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital's in vitro fertilization program on Long Island, New York.
The 3-2 decision by the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court comes two years after a lower court said that Maureen Kass--not her former husband, Steven--had the sole right to control the fate of the embryos. The supreme court at that time equated a woman's power over the embryos to the right to have an ...