With the number of frozen embryos reaching 1 million in the U.S., many predict that legal disputes over frozen embryos will increase when couples divorce. In cases such as these, one spouse may want to keep the embryos to conceive children at some point in the future, while the other spouse does not. Many state…Read More
Illinois Frozen Embryo Custody Law
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the number of babies born through assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization, has skyrocketed from 260 in 1985 to more than 61,000 in 2010. Couples may undergo the procedure to tackle current infertility issues, while others are harvesting healthy eggs to bring to term at…Read More