A groundbreaking trial over opposing claims of reproductive rights opened Monday with an ex-husband’s testimony that an agreement his cancer-stricken wife signed shortly after their wedding allowed him to insist on destruction of their jointly produced frozen embryos when they divorced three years later. The case in San Francisco Superior Court could set legal precedents on the meaning of such contracts and on whether destroying artificially preserved embryos, over the woman’s objections, violates her constitutional right to make decisions about procreation. For Stephen...
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