February 9, 2017 -- Panel on Reproductive Technologies -- Continuing Legal Education Materials

Decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court (all available at versa.cardozo.yu.edu)

• Doe v. Ministry of Health (2013) (sperm donor's right not to be a parent)
• Nahmani v. Nahmani (1996) (divorced couple's disagreement over use of embryos)
• Nahmani v. Nahmani (1995) (divorced couple's disagreement over use of embryos)
• Moshe v. The Board for Approval of Embryo Carrying Agreements under the Embryo Carrying Agreements Law (2014) (lesbian couple seeking approval for IVF, involving implantation of a fertilized egg from one woman in the uterus of the other, in Israel (where it is prohibited by statute) rather than abroad (where it is permitted under a Ministry of Health protocol))
   

Decisions of U.S. Courts

• Ferguson v. McKiernan (Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 2007) (enforcing agreement between sperm donor and the donee that he would not seek visitation rights and that she would not hold the donor responsible for supporting the child that results from the arrangement)

Secondary Materials

• Barak-Erez, The Delusion of Symmetric Rights
• Lifshitz, Neither Nature nor Contract: Toward an Institutional Perspective on Parenthood
• Family of dead Israeli soldier can use his sperm
• Zafran, Dying to be a Father

The whole set of CLE materials can be downloaded as a single PDF file by clicking here.