$5,000 Awarded to Law Students for Tackling Critical Legal Issues Surrounding the Controversial Topic of Embryo Donation & Adoption.FULLERTON, Calif. -- Three law students are being financially rewarded for participating in a writing competition aimed at creating more interest in the field of Assisted Reproduction assisted reproduction n. The use of medical techniques, such as drug therapy, artificial insemination, or in vitro fertilization, to enhance fertility. Technology Law - specifically the often sensitive issues surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. embryo donation Embryo donation is a form of third party reproduction. In vitro fertilisation often results in a number of frozen, unused embryos after the woman for whom they were originally created has successfully carried one or more pregnancies to term. and adoption. The winning students thoroughly tackled the issues of understanding what the law requires of fertility clinics Fertility clinics are staffed medical clinics that assist couples, and sometimes individuals, who want to become parents but for medical reasons have been unable to achieve this goal via the natural course. when transferring abandoned embryos at their clinics to other patients, and if this practice would even stand up to potential future legal challenges from genetic relatives of the embryos. The detailed problem and winning essays can be read at www.embryolaw.org. Several students from around the nation entered the competition continuing a national discussion on how to handle the numerous possible legal challenges facing this relatively new form of adoption. The winning essays were written and submitted by the following individuals: FIRST PLACE: $2,500.00 Ms. Anne Swanda University of Nebraska College of Law SECOND PLACE: $1,500.00 Ms. Carissa Giebel Regent University School of Law THIRD PLACE: $1,000.00 Mr. Francis Jamison Rutgers School of Law - Camden This was the second-annual essay contest organized by Nightlight([R]) as part of its Embryo Donation and Adoption Awareness Campaign. Nightlightprovides adoption services through the Snowflakes snowflakes small patches of gray or white hair acquired after birth. Skin color is unchanged. See also achromotrichia, vitiligo. ([R]) Frozen Embryo embryo (ĕm`brēō), name for the developing young of an animal or plant. In its widest definition, the embryo is the young from the moment of fertilization until it has become structurally complete and able to survive as a separate organism. Adoption program (Snowflakes). Snowflakes started in 1997 as the only organization of its kind to facilitate the donation and adoption of frozen embryos for family building. "The contest offers a great way to stir the debate and hopefully grow an interest among future lawyers to make this area of Assisted Reproduction Technology Law part of their practice," said Ronald Stoddart, Executive Director of Nightlight([R]). For more general information about embryo donation and adoption please visit www.embryoadoption.org. This Essay Competition is conducted by Nightlight Christian Adoptions and supported by grant number 2EAAPA94000-04-00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS . Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department. |
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