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Episode 5

By: Dov Fox
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 When the families take legal action, courts must wrestle with fundamental questions about the genetics of disease, the value of human life, and what it means to love your child.©2020 Dov Fox (P)2020 Audible Originals
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About the Creator and Performer - Dov Fox

About the Creator and Performer

Dov Fox is the Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he founded and directs the Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics. Named professor of the year for both teaching excellence and outstanding scholarship, he also holds the university’s highest academic honor bestowed on faculty in any field. Fox’s articles have been published in leading journals of law (e.g., Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal), medicine (e.g., New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association), and public health (e.g., Foreign Affairs, American Journal of Public Health). His work has also been featured in major newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Wall Street Journal), magazines (e.g., The Atlantic, The Economist), and television programs (e.g., CBS This Morning, NBC Today Show). Part One of his original series Donor 9623 was named Audible’s #1 podcast of 2020 and submitted for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. Fox’s latest book, Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, was published by Oxford University Press. His next book is The Conscience of Care: Policing the Boundaries of Health in Post-Roe America.
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This was a very interesting case because one reasonably expected a medical company to do screening for genetic defects when selling genetic material

Lawsuits from those damaged

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Excellent narration and interviews. This episode deals with the Georgia courts, well what can you say they totally ignore the facts of negligence of the corporate entity and make the parents feel guilty. The take home is two fold first never use a sperm bank second if you want reproductive justice stay out of a Georgia courtroom.

Useless Courts

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The sperm bank had a disclaimer stating the details in the catalog were not verified. These parents chose the donor because they wanted super intelligent children but they themselves were too stupid to read the small print.

Read the small print

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There is legitimate issue an informed consent, but it's not complicated. Also a legitimate issue an consequences, which is interesting but not well explained.

Still overhyped

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