In divorce case judge rules human embryos may be valued and sold, and therefore may be considered ‘goods or chattels’
Frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel”, ajudge has ruled, basing his decision in part on a 19th-century law governing the treatment of enslaved people.
“It’s repulsive and it’s morally repugnant,” said Susan Crockin, a lawyer and scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics and an expert in reproductive technology law. The judge ruled that because embryos could not be bought or sold, they couldn’t be considered as such and therefore Honeyhline Heidemann had no recourse under that law to claim custody of them.
“As there is no prohibition on the sale of human embryos, they may be valued and sold, and thus may be considered ‘goods or chattels’,” he wrote.
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