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OPINION: How Courts Have Mislabeled Human Embryos

Law360, New York (October 18, 2016, 12:55 PM EDT) -- As colorfully noted by Shakespeare in Jaques' speech to the Duke in "As You Like It," a human being has many "ages" or developmental stages. But when does a human being's development actually begin? The 1989 trial of a custody dispute over six frozen human embryos, Davis v. Davis,[1] examined this very question. The trial court heard the testimony of scientific experts, including renowned genetic expert Dr. Jerome LeJeune, and decided that each four- to eight-cell embryo was a human being.[2]...

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