{"id":201398,"date":"2019-05-08T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201398"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:45:18","slug":"connecticut-supreme-court-couple-embryo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/connecticut-supreme-court-couple-embryo\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Supreme Court to decide if ex-couple’s frozen embryo lives or dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A now-divorced couple in Connecticut is fighting over whether to destroy their remaining frozen embryo or allow another couple to adopt him or her. The case went before the CT Supreme Court on April 30th, but a decision<\/a> isn’t expected for months.<\/p>\n

This case is one of many that are happening around the country, including one involving ‘Modern Family’ actress Sofia Vergara<\/a>. The number of cases concerning the custody and fate of frozen embryos is likely to grow since there are a million<\/a> embryos currently frozen in the United States. Each case weighs in on whether human embryos should be viewed as people or property.<\/p>\n

Former CT couple Timothy Goodwin and Jessica Bilbao have a born daughter who, like her sibling, was created via IVF. They had signed a contract in 2011 stating that if they were to divorce, the remaining embryo would be destroyed. However, after their daughter was born, Goodwin says he had a change of heart and no longer felt that the embryo should be destroyed. Then when the couple did divorce in 2016, the debate over what to do with their embryonic preborn baby began.<\/p>\n