Mississippi voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to define the word "person" or "persons" to include "every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Will of Mississippi College School of Law says establishing pre-embryonic personhood may still fail to outlaw abortion and may lead to the imposition of restrictions on other reproductive choices such as certain forms of birth control......
Federal appeals court denies benefits for child conceived after father's death
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that an Iowa girl born two years after her father's death was not entitled to his Social Security benefits. After the death...
Rights group sues Costa Rica for failure to legalize in vitro fertilization
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday filed suit in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to challenge Costa Rica's longstanding ban on in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
National Institute of Health's stem cell research guidelines promote sound science
Geoffrey Lomax : "CIRM welcomes Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth's dismissal of Sherely v. Sebelius. The National Institute of Health (NIH) Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research represent sound public policy...
UK mandatory retirement does not violate EU antidiscrimination law: ECJ advisor
A legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued an opinion Tuesday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. ECJ Advocate General Jan...
Canadian reproductive regulation ruled too broad, violates provincial authority
The Court of Appeal of Quebec ruled Thursday that a national law which regulates the use of human embryos and bans human cloning encroaches upon provincial authority. The court held that regulatory...
Employee in vitro fertilization treatment firing ruling [ECJ]
Sabine Mayr v Backerei und Konditorei Gerhard Flockner OHG, European Court of Justice, February 26, 2008 . Read the full...
EU court says employee firing over in vitro treatment violates equal treatment laws
The European Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that an employee's "dismissal essentially based on the fact that a woman is at an advanced stage of in vitro fertilisation treatment is contrary to...
Colorado high court OKs ballot initiative language on protections for fertilized eggs
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the language of an anti-abortion group's proposed ballot initiative that would amend the Colorado constitution to define a fertilized egg as a "person" entitled to "inalienable...
