Deck 16: The New Science of Motherhood

Question 1

When a couple cannot agree on the disposition of frozen embryos, how does Tennessee resolve the question?

Answer 1

The party wishing to avoid procreation prevails unless the other party needs the embryos for procreation. If the party wishing to preserve them wants to donate them to another couple, the party wishing to destroy them prevails.

Question 2

An embryo is an egg that has been fertilized by a sperm in the early stage of development.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

In Davis v. Davis, the court held that if a divorcing couple cannot decide what to do with unused frozen pre-embryos:

A)the party wishing to use the embryos for procreation should ordinarily prevail, assuming the other party has a reasonable possibility of achieving parenthood by means other than the use of the frozen pre-embryos in question
B)the party wishing to avoid procreation should ordinarily prevail, assuming the other party has a reasonable possibility of achieving parenthood by means other than the use of the frozen pre-embryos in question
C)the judge should destroy the pre-embryos
D)the dispute should be resolved in arbitration

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The risks of egg donation have been adequately studied.

Question 5

A zygote is an unfertilized egg.

Question 6

When eggs are donated:

A)the average fee paid to the donor is between $2,000 and $5,000
B)the general consensus is that egg donation is safe
C)there are health risks to the donor that have not been adequately studied
D)all of these choices

Question 7

One in eight couples in the United States today needs some form of medical help to create their family.

Question 8

Infertility is the failure of a couple to conceive in over a year despite having sexual relations without contraceptives.

Question 9

A genetic parent is:

A)a presumed parent
B)a gestational parent
C)a biological parent
D)a registered parent

Question 10

Surgically removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, combining them with sperm in a laboratory, and returning the result to the woman's body (or donating them to another woman) is an example of:

A)ART
B)AIH
C)AID
D)NI

Question 11

In Louisiana, a viable in vitro fertilized human ovum is a juridical person that shall not be intentionally destroyed.

Question 12

Distinguish traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy.

Question 13

In some states, it is illegal to give birth to a child for the sole purpose of surrendering it to another person for adoption.

Question 14

Over 30 percent of infertility is due solely to the male.

Question 15

What is required by the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act?

Question 16

With nondonor eggs, a woman uses someone else's eggs in the ARC cycle.

Question 17

How safe is egg donation in ART procedures and what ethical concern has been raised?

Question 18

List some of the assisted reproductive technologies.

Question 19

What is a surrogate mother?

Question 20

IVF is an ART.

Question 21

surrogacy is the carrying and delivering of a child for another in which the woman does not use her own egg and is therefore not genetically related to the child.

Question 22

In the Baby M case, the New Jersey court the surrogacy contract.

Question 23

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
IVF is an example of it

Question 24

is the carrying and delivering of a child for another.

Question 25

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
what often occurs after separation or divorce

Question 26

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
one who wants to raise a child

Question 27

An issue of first is an issue being considered by a court for the first time.

Question 28

If a surrogate is not paid for her services, her agreement to carry the child is called a
surrogacy agreement.

Question 29

What are some of the arguments against allowing surrogate contracts?

Question 30

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
is genetically related to the child

Question 31

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
ending parental rights

Question 32

How do courts decide who is the legal mother of a child when the surrogate mother refuses to give the child to the intended parents?

Question 33

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
method of storing cells

Question 34

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
surgical removal of a woman's eggs

Question 35

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
inability to conceive

Question 36

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
parent of the country

Question 37

Alternative A of the Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act is to regulate surrogacy agreements; Alternative B is to them.

Question 38

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.a.IVF
b.traditional surrogacy
c.parens patriae
d.cryopreservation
e.TPR
f.property division
g.gestational surrogacy
h.infertility
i.ART
j.intended parent
is not genetically related to the child