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That when an embryo is created, it is important for the mother and father, the people who created the embryo, to agree in advance and in writing how the embryos are going to be handled. if they break up. if they break up. if something happens somebody dies. that it s very important to des ignite how these are going to be handled. because once you don t designate it, it can wind up in the court and frankly, this is an area in terms of ownership of embryos that is very unsettled under the law. laura, there s another wrinkle to this case. and that is a couple of weeks ago, sofia vergara, and the judge in this custody case, wanted nick loeb to produce the names, and contact information of two other, i believe, of his exes. ex-girlfriends, who have had abortions. ....
This man and if there s not i m going to have to figure out if it s publicity or not. you have sofia vergara s attorneys requesting that information, is it the intent of deposing them to figure out two things. one, whether in fact he always had this right-to-live feelings and standpoint. but also to figure out, is this somebody who has an alternative means of getting a biological child and has thwarted those attempts in the past, and how does that guide the court now? this is a very, very unsettled thing and really alisyn it comes down to an argument over whether or not an embryo as jeffrey says is a property, or is a human that has vested interests. and i think the courts are grappling with this. these are just two people who can t stand each other anymore. that s the bottom line. keep that in mind. they re trying to use the courts to work out their very, very angry feelings. jeffrey toobin, laura coates, thank you very much. we re following a lot of news this morning. let s g ....
They were trying to prove that he wasn t always right-to-life and that this was some sort of publicity maneuver. but that is i mean what does that mean that that publicly to produce these names of anonymous women where they would have been sort of shamed in public or had to reveal to their spouse their now spouses or employers, i mean that s a whole other wrinkle in terms of right to privacy. where s the law on that? well, absolutely. someone s not having to be outed in terms of having received an abortion in the past even if it s for a civil lawsuit. what s happening in that case is essentially this, the judge was trying to figure out and grapple with how do i decide the property interest? how do i decide the balance of interests here? and you ve got a contract that doesn t say anything about what happens if they break up. only if they die. so the court in california says listen i m going to do a balancing act here and figure out is there any alternative reason or any reasonab ....
Modern family star sofia vergara is facing an unusual twist in the battle over her frozen embryos. a right to live lawsuit has been filed against her by those two embryos. vergara s former fiance nick lobe dropped his original lawsuit against her in which he tried to get custody of the embryos that the two of them had created when they were a couple. he says he has nothing to do with this new lawsuit. let s discuss this with cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and cnn legal analyst laura coates. jeffrey, how do two embryos file a lawsuit? they don t. i think this lawsuit is going to be thrown out. because they i don t think there is any way that a court would find embryos to have standing. under the law, at the moment, embryos are property. they are not people. this is all tied up with abortion politics and this is an ....