Connecticut Court Rules Frozen Embryos Can Be Destroyed

October 31, 2019

(ABC News) – Connecticut’s highest court ruled Wednesday that frozen embryos at the center of a divorce case amount to marital property and can be destroyed. The unanimous opinion, which reversed a lower court decision, found the couple had an enforceable contract with a fertility clinic in which they agreed to have the embryos discarded should they divorce. A lower court had ruled the contract was unenforceable and had granted ownership of the embryos as property to the woman, Jessica Bilbao.