Assisted Reproductive Technology: The Process, Bioethics, and How It Will Affect Your Practice Out of Stock
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September 2012
Assisted Reproductive Technology: The Process, Bioethics, and How It Will Affect Your Practice
Program Highlights:
Who Should Attend:
- Family Law Attorneys
- Health Law Attorneys
- Trust, Estate, and Probate Attorneys
What You Will Learn:
- What ART is and how it can complicate your Family Law and T&E cases
- How ART ends up in litigation and how to avoid it
- Ethical considerations
- State and national laws and how to apply them
- The state of the technology and what's on the horizon
Program Description:
You've heard of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy, but what are the legal ramifications of these and other reproductive services? Take this course and we'll walk you through the fundamentals of Assisted Reproductive Technology, local and national law, bioethical issues, and how to handle ART cases when they cross your desk - and if they haven't already, it won't be long! Hear about the process from the patients, doctors, agencies, and practitioners who do it every day so that you can build your practice and take part in this cutting-edge legal field.
Topics:
The Technology
- Third Party Reproduction and What ART Covers
- Artificial Insemination (AI)
- In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
- Cryopreservation
- Donation of gametes and embryos
- Surrogacy
- The Numbers Throughout Colorado
- Determination of Medical Necessity and Medical Screening
- What's on the Horizon?
Presented by Debra Minjarez, M.D.
Agency Representative
- How Surrogacy and Egg Donation Work
- How Agencies Work
- Role of the Internet
Presented by Deborah Levy, MA, LPC
Patients' Perspectives
- Struggling with Infertility
- The Surrogacy Process
- Their Family Today
ART Law
- Statistics
- Frequency of use
- Number of children
- Size of the industry
- Future growth
- How and When Lawyers are Involved
- Drafting Agreements
- Litigation
- State of the Law
- Colorado
- United States
- International
Presented by Laura Koupal, Esq.
Bioethics
- Ethical Standards and Guidelines
- Donation
- Ontological question: What are embryos?
- Teleological question: What is the purpose of creating them?
- Autonomy question: Hold people to a contract at all times?
- Procreation questions: What are the limits to right to procreate and right to not procreate? Does the embryo have any rights?
- What Is Being Sold?
- Should People Be Able to Have Kids Forever?
- Feminist Perspectives
- Religious Perspectives
Presented by Jacqueline Glover, Ph.D
Second Parent Adoptions and UPA Actions
- Law Regarding Second Parent Adoptions
- Who is eligible?
- What's the process?
- Where to find the information/forms
- Pitfalls and problems
- Law Regarding UPA Actions for Married Couples/Surrogacy
- What's the process?
- Unique Issues
- International cases/immigration law
- Parents from other states
- When the surrogate must stay on a birth certificate
- Intersection with adoption requirements
Presented by Erica Johnson, Esq. and Laura Koupal, Esq..
ART and Family Law
- Litigated Issues
- Who gets the embryos?
- Change of heart before the birth
- Change of heart after the birth
- Breach of contract
Presented by Kim Willoughby, Esq.
ART and Probate
- Estate Planning Issues
- Colorado UPC III
- Posthumous births
- Definition of child for class purposes
- How to bequeath gametes and embryos
- Why you always need to ask what's on ice
Presented by Kim Willoughby, Esq.
Program Co-Chairs & Faculty
Laura Koupal, Esq.
Willoughby & Eckelberry, LLC
Denver, CO
Kim Willoughby, Esq.
Willoughby & Eckelberry, LLC
Denver, CO
Faculty
Jacqueline Glover, Ph.D
Center for Bioethics and Humanities
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO
Erica Johnson, Esq.
Ambler & Keenan, LLC
Denver, CO
Deborah Levy, MA, LPC
ConceiveAbilities
Denver, CO
Debra Minjarez, M.D.
Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine
Denver, CO
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $339.00 USD
- Member Price $289.00 USD
- General Credits 7.00
- Ethics Credits 1.00
- EDI Credits