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Father wins case against fertility clinic
The Boston Globe ^
| 1/31/2004
| Thanassis Cambanis
Posted on 01/31/2004 5:23:41 AM PST by Radix
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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In one of the first legal cases in Massachusetts involving the largely unregulated field of fertility treatment, a Middlesex County jury awarded more than $100,000 yesterday to a Dennis man who said that a Boston fertility clinic impregnated his estranged wife without his permission and should pay his share of child support for his now 7-year-old daughter.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fatherhood; fertility; ivf; paternity; support
Too interesting not to post. There are a lot of ramifications to this decision.
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posted on
01/31/2004 5:23:42 AM PST
by
Radix
To: Radix
IVF clinics are more trouble than they're worth IMHO.
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posted on
01/31/2004 5:25:18 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Radix
Any bets the wife hasn't held a job in over 9 years?
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posted on
01/31/2004 5:55:35 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat party.)
To: Radix
It's hard to believe a liberal court actually supported the constitution, and especially in the case of a male plaintiff! Somebody there must be asleep at the switch.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:01:47 AM PST
by
Ukiapah Heep
(Shoes for Industry!)
To: Radix
"It certainly does not send a good message to a child to have a parent saying that he needs to receive damages because the child was born," he said. Poor kid. Most likely she will know how her life began and that her father despised her so much from the start.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:35:42 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: cyborg
I can't imagine how mixed up some of these kids are going to be --- knowing they were conceived in a test tube --- no passion, no love between their "parents". At least an adopted kid can realize that they were conceived in at least a spark of passion or attraction --- something natural but maybe the timing of that was off and their mother was unable to provide for them.
Being a frozen embryo your father wanted discarded ----- that's so cold and impassionate.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:41:55 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: FITZ
She might also wonder about her two other siblings still in the freezer.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:42:12 AM PST
by
xJones
To: FITZ
"Poor kid"My thoughts too, but I certainly can't blame the father for being pissed. They weren't married anymore, so why should he have to pay her squat?
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:44:01 AM PST
by
Wumpus Hunter
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: FITZ
I agree with you...I think the worst thing in the world for a child to know is that a parent didn't want them. Also, there are already MILLIONS of frozen embryos going to waste. They only last about five years. IVF treatments aren't cheap and most clinics are just out to take women's money.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:44:46 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: FITZ
Buzz! Correction:
Gladu said he believed that the two embryos remaining at the clinic would be donated to another couple or discarded
It's possible that both remaining embryos were used in the mother's last attempt, since three were used during the son's successful implantation.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:45:06 AM PST
by
xJones
To: cyborg
I have adopted cousins ---- they knew their mothers loved them enough to want them in homes where they could be raised with two stable parents. That seems a lot better than all this IVF stuff.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:49:41 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: Wumpus Hunter
Yes --- that's where it does get complicated --- did the mother do this for spite? for money? for control? Most of this IVF stuff is wrong on many levels. The mother isn't even the mother.
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:51:20 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: FITZ
and cheaper than IVF
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posted on
01/31/2004 6:52:30 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Radix
Does the anonymous donor who contributed the eggs get to cash in too?
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posted on
01/31/2004 7:40:13 AM PST
by
ZOOKER
To: ZOOKER
That's the biggest joke of all the young lady is hardly a 'donor' as they get a donation of about $7000 per egg
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posted on
01/31/2004 7:41:43 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: xJones
No, they were both implanted also. They became selectively reduced (aborted)
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posted on
01/31/2004 5:27:54 PM PST
by
mlmr
(a kiss is just a kiss....as time goes by.......)
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