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Stephanie Blessing is a blogger and speaker on the ethics of advanced reproductive technologies. She's against it - which is a little surprising given the fact she was conceived via artificial insemination with donor sperm.
Stephanie wasn't raised with this knowledge of her paternity. In May of 2009 Stephanie shared her fears of inheriting her father's advancing dementia with her mother. In order to relieve her daughter's fears, her mother confessed that after a dozen years of struggling with infertility, Stephanie had been conceived with the assistance of a doctor and an anonymous donor.
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He's strong, healthy and hirsute. She's social and friendly, with Rubenesque curves. Yet the dalliances of this walrus couple have failed to yield a baby, a fact that confounds experts at Vallejo, Calif.-based Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, which seeks to breed the rare and mysterious species. So scientists are making the first- ever attempt at artificial insemination -- if only they can persuade male Sivuqaq, a rambunctious creature the size of a Volkswagen, to donate sperm.
Once we get the sperm, we're good to go," said marine mammal reproductive physiologist Holley Muraco. "I feel confident that we're going to have walrus babies.
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Applicable state statutes of limitations bar product liability claims brought by a woman who claimed that she received defective semen when she was artificially inseminated, the 3rd Circuit has ruled in affirming a dismissal.
The plaintiff gave birth in 1996 to a child conceived through artificial insemination.
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The process by which a woman is medically impregnated using semen from her husband or from a third-party donor.
Artificial ...
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artificial insemination, res judicata, collateral estoppel, paternity, R.C. 3111.95(B), R.C. 3111.49, child support
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Can a husband disavow a child conceived through artificial insemination for child support purposes?
The Appellate Division, Third Department recently reviewed just such a case, working through the law as applied to children resulting from artificial insemination. The case is Laura WW. v. Peter WW. 2008 NY Slip Op 3266 (April 11).
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Introduction . I. Family Privacy: Autonomy or Sanction? II. Assisted Reproduction: Privacy or Ratification? . A. Artificial Insemination by Donor: Is it Adultery?. B. Surrogacy: Is it "Baby-Selling"?. III. Adoption: Ratification of Private Choice or State Imprimatur? . A. When Will Parents Elect Adoption?. B. Which Parents Will the State Recognize?. IV. Interstate Recognition: The Next Battle in the Culture Wars . Conclusion .
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Bruce Blakely has spent about 12 years playing an invaluable part in strengthening Oklahoma's beef industry and protecting expensive insurance policies.
And yet, he still finds himself dancing around the topic when asked what he does for a living.
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WAUPUN, Wis. - Most of the 400 Holstein cows on B & B Dairy will never see a bull in their lives, but they are bred with some of the most sought-after studs in the world. The same went for their mothers and most of their grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
It's done through artificial insemination, a growing industry in the U.S. and abroad, which allows farmers to breed fertility, milk quality and other good traits into their calves and breed out bad ones.