Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints
By Yael Hashiloni-Dolev and Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty In 2009, Israel was one of the first countries to authorize social egg freezing, before it was declared non-experimental. Israel is a highly pronatalist...
View ArticleFertility Leave: Seeking Assisted Reproductive Technology as an Employee in...
By Manna Mostaghim Fertility leave — employer-sanctioned time off for fertility treatment appointments — is becoming a feature of modern employment relationships in the UK. Some public and private...
View ArticleAn Intersectional Analysis of Proposed Fertility Leave in England and Wales
By Elizabeth Chloe Romanis and Sabrina Germain For people in England and Wales needing access to fertility treatment, economic barriers can be a huge hurdle. There are the direct costs of the treatment...
View ArticleSurrogacy and Employment Rights in the UK
By Zaina Mahmoud and Kirsty Horsey At the end of March 2023, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission published their joint Report, Building Families Through Surrogacy: A...
View ArticleAccess to Uterus Transplantation and the Workplace
By Natasha Hammond-Browning Uterus transplantation first hit the headlines in 2014, with the birth of the first baby born following a uterus transplant. This first birth in Sweden has led to trials...
View ArticleThe Beginning of a Bad TRIP – Alabama’s Embryonic Personhood Decision and...
By Katherine L. Kraschel Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court called frozen embryos created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) “extrauterine children” and referred to the cryotanks where they are stored...
View ArticleAre Embryos Children? The Alabama Supreme Court Says Yes
By Joelle Boxer This month, the Alabama Supreme Court held that the term “children” in a state statute includes embryos, or “extrauterine children.” As fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization...
View ArticleDesigner Babies? The Ethical and Regulatory Implications of Polygenic Embryo...
By Hannah Rahim New technologies are increasing the accessibility of polygenic embryo screening, which can assess the likelihood of an embryo developing polygenic diseases (e.g., diabetes,...
View ArticleRegulating International Commercial Surrogacy
By Hannah Rahim In January 2024, Pope Francis called for a universal ban on surrogacy as a threat to global peace and human dignity, claiming that the practice is a “grave violation” of the mother and...
View ArticlePace Law Review Symposium Edition: “Bioethics After Dobbs”
by James Toomey On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the canonical precedent Roe v. Wade and holding that the federal constitution does...
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