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<title>
Mar. 08, 1993: Conflicted Custody
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 20
SOCIETY
Conflicted Custody
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<p>The Supreme Court affirms reproductive rights--for men
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<p> To most Women's Rights advocates, the debate over abortion is
about a woman's right to control her reproduction. But who decides
in the case of an embryo conceived outside her body? In a groundbreaking
decision, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that
gives a man the right not to become a father against his wishes.
Like thousands of young couples unable to conceive a child naturally,
Junior and Mary Sue Davis had turned to test-tube fertilization.
But when the couple divorced and couldn't agree who should control
seven fertilized embryos they had frozen and stored in a Tennessee
clinic, the Davises wound up in the Supreme Court. Junior Davis
had requested that the embryos be destroyed, asserting his own
"reproductive rights." His ex-wife claimed a right to her "offspring."
In refusing Mary Sue Davis' appeal to implant the embryos in
her womb, the court decided that Junior Davis' right not to
become a parent outweighed his ex-wife's claim. The Justices
upheld a lower court's ruling that in such cases "procreational
autonomy" gives men as well as women an overriding right not
to become parents. What effect this will have on the national
abortion debate is unclear, but for the Davises it means they
can now get on with their lives.
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