Faculty Director Gary Marchant recently discussed Arizona’s controversial law governing frozen embryos on the LegalEase Podcast – a show produced by Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law students and alumni.
Arizona recently passed a law requiring, in part, that in a dispute over the use of frozen embryos courts must award the embryos to the spouse “who intends to allow the … embryos to develop to birth.” The law was inspired by a recent decision in a contentious divorce case. A court in Maricopa County ordered frozen embryos donated to a third party, where the former husband disagreed with his wife’s wishes to use the embryos following their divorce.
On the podcast, Marchant debates and discusses, sometimes line by line, the finer aspects of the new law with Phoenix civil litigator Angelica Simpson.