Sofia Vergara: US actress faces lawsuit 'from own embryos'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is being, in effect, sued by two frozen embryos she conceived with the partner she split from, US media report.

The embryos, named Emma and Isabella, are listed in Louisiana court documents obtained by the New York Post.
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Louisiana is considered a "pro-life" state and under its law a fertilised egg is seen as a "juridical person".

The Louisiana case names a trustee as plaintiff, but not Mr Loeb himself. The suit asks that the embryos be transferred to Mr Loeb so that they can be born and receive their inheritance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38252457

The kind of idiocy that results from calling a fertilised egg a "juridicial person".

[Egnever]

1. Holy crap

People's greed has no limits. What a completely disgusting grab for money.

[haele]

5. Mr. Leob apparently went deeper into religiousity and wants

the embryos that he and Ms. Vergara (his then wife) froze for later in-vitro to go into his new wife, so he wouldn't, like go to hell because those embryos don't become the twin girls he imagines they'll be, or something like that.
In-vitro doesn't work that way anyway; there's a good chance those embryos won't take as it is. My brother and his wife went through the process after they had a dozen fertilized embryos in storage; three times using three embryos each time before any of them actually "took" and she became pregnant. And their doctor indicated that there was a possibility that the chance of pregnancy would decrease slightly the longer they were stored, depending on genetics and the age of the woman the eggs would be implanted in.

So - there's just two fertilized embryos that have been sitting for how long? How old is Mr. Loeb's new wife, and does she have a fertility issue? If one believes in a God that directs everything that happens naturally, chances are, those "little girls" may not be meant to be born.

The point ultimately is that Ms. Vergara doesn't want him to use her eggs for his religious vanity.

Haele

[shraby]

2. If that's the case, she should have been able to claim them as dependents on her income tax

for all the years since she had them frozen.

[lame54]

3. What's her connection to Louisiana

[Demit]

4. There's a possible answer in the story at the link.

[lame54]

11. Doesn't really explain it

[JonLP24]

6. I think this legal expert explains the case well

https://m.

[mercuryblues]

10. what a jerk

he is the one who set up the trust. He chose Louisiana because of their laws to say the embryos are real live children and being denied the rights to their inheritance. IOW court shopping.

You know what would be funny. Somehow the embryos are accidentally thawed, rendered useless. Then Vergara gets 1/2 the inheritance, using his legal argument. How fast do you think he would argue that as embryos they were not living beings?

[lunasun]

7. We could get rid of these laws if a certain class of women realized all these laws will apply to

infertility technology eventually , such as creating a group of embryo with the intention some will not survive due to the individual women's reproductive health is not pro-life
That some idiot like trump won partially by getting the anti choice vote is very scary . They will always go with whoever will say I am pro life law
Which is anti choice for others

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. To initiate lawsuits in most states, plantiffs, who are alive, sign certain documents...

Did the frozen embryos actually agree - in writing - to allow the lawsuit?

[Ilsa]

12. Well, they're minors, you know. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Betcha it's really about money...

He set up a trust fund for the eggs and would like to get it back?

If the eggs have some recognition as life forms, Could Sofia be liable for "child support."