article_snippet.sent: The case has led to questions about who has the right to embryos.
article_snippet.sent: If there's a disagreement, the courts usually get involved to decide who legally owns the embryos, Tourgeman said.
article_snippet.sent: In the scenario where there's a disagreement as to who these embryos belong to, it will usually be decided by a court of law.
article_snippet.sent: Are the embryos alive?" said California attorney Vance Owen.
article_snippet.sent: To abortion advocates, the child has to be in a more advanced state, perhaps the third trimester, so it's a very interesting time to be discussing these life issues," California attorney Vance Owen said.
article_snippet.sent: California attorney Vance Owen said Loeb has a case because no court in California will allow the destruction of the embryos if both parties disagree.
article_snippet.sent: It's a question, I think, of whether to decide if these frozen (embryos)are human beings or whether they are property.
article_snippet.sent: Since they are unborn, some states in the United States look at these (embryos) not as life, but as property.
article_snippet.sent: California attorney Vance Owen said the lawsuit reportedly filed by Loeb will now open new issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide to whom the embryos belong.
article_snippet.sent: the embryos are not inside the U.S. Supreme Court body," California attorney Vance Owen said.
article_snippet.sent: In Danforth case, the U.S. Supreme Court declared a statute that requires parental and spousal consent for abortions to be unconstitutional.