
Frozen Embryos Spark Legal Battle: Patterson Prevails
A judge in Northern Virginia has ruled that embryos are not property subject to division, rejecting a prior court analysis that likened fertilized eggs to divisible “goods or chattel” under 19th-century slave law. Nearly 10 months after closing arguments, Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Dontaè L. Bugg issued an opinion dismissing cancer survivor Honeyhline Heidemann’s partition lawsuit against her...