Health Law

New Legal Frontier: Defining the Rights of Frozen Human Embryos

By Martha Neil

Oct 6, 2008, 12:20 pm CST

Thanks to today's reproductive technology, the interrelated questions of when life begins and who has the right to make decisions about someone else's body and children are becoming increasingly complex.

The latest wrinkle: Whether frozen embryos belong to the couple (usually married) who asked a medical clinic to fertilize their… full story