Judge finds frozen embryos are not divisible property in cancer survivor’s case against ex-husband
Fairfax, Virginia (AP) – Judge in the Northern Virginia, decided that the fetuses are not a king that can be divided The slave law in the nineteenth century.
Nearly 10 months after the locks of the arguments, the Verfa’a L. Bugg court judge He wrote in an opinion message Earlier this month, he rejected the Cancer Survivor’s Department against her ex-husband-a legal action that the owner of a property could take against another. The former wife, Honeyhline Heidemann, filed a lawsuit against Jason Hydeman for reaching two fetuses, freezing during a fertilization course in the 2015 laboratory, but agreed to leave storage during the divorce after three years.
in The trial of the benchHoneyhline Heidemann witnessed that the fetuses were their last chance to imagine another biological child after cancer treatment. Jason Hydeman’s lawyer has argued that he did not want to become a biological father of a child by force, even if he was not required to be a parent.
The conflict attracted the national interest in 2023 when Judge Richard Jardir-who is no longer appointed to the case for unrelated reasons-the law of slavery is when swooping Jason Hydeman sponsors The state division law did not include embryos. Bouj wrote in his letter on March 7 that he had assumed a case with Garderner’s dependence on the state law, which preceded the thirteenth amendment of the United States constitution that eliminates slavery.
BUGG wrote that since 1865, legislators in Virginia removed signals to slavery to “fulfilling a jump without a law from the Virginia Law, and the slavery institution that applies to their citizen colleagues, which supports removal that humans, and the front committee they created, should not be subject to the legislative policy of division.”
BUGG’s refusal of the case comes in an increasing national debate about whether the embryos are human. Seven states of embryos, eggs, or fertilizers were identified as a “person”, “human” or “last” in the killing law, according to the pregnancy judge. Emptying the personal report of the fetus From last September.
In 2024, and The Supreme Court in Alabama ruled Frozen embryos are people.
Later that year, Republicans in the US Senate prohibited legislation This would make it correct at the country’s level for women to reach fertilization in the laboratory and other fertility treatment after the then major leader Chuck Schumer forced a vote on this issue.
Before this trial, there was a few judicial precedents in Virginia that govern the treatment of embryos.
Jason Zelman, the lawyer of Honeyhline Heidemann, admitted that the case had touched on sensitive cases, but also suggested that Bugg had not needed to create any comprehensive precedent. Honeyhline Heidemann, who had a daughter with Jason Heidman through the same course in the laboratory, has witnessed that she hopes to get both the remaining frozen fetuses, but she will also accept whether Bugg has separated enriched eggs between her and the previous husband.
Carrie Patterson, Jason Hydeman’s lawyer, has argued that the judge should not conclude that the fetuses could be sold or divided. Although the Virginia courts have the ability to direct property selling, Patterson also indicated that the American Republican Medicine Association has considered the sale of immoral fertilized eggs.
Bugg wrote that there was no law indicating that enriched eggs should be evaluated, purchased or sold – nor had evidence of a mechanism to implement such a process that gives the nature of the embryos.
“It is clear that these two human fetuss, if they are planted and transferred for the duration, will not lead to the same two people,” he wrote. “In fact, the embryos are unique like any two people who may be chosen from the population, including siblings with the same biological parents.”
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Olivia Diaz is a member of the Associated Press Corps/report of America’s news.
