Tennessee Supreme Court· 6/1/1992

Davis v. Davis

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842 S.W.2d 588
1992 Tenn. LEXIS 400

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concluding that ex-husband's interest in avoiding becoming a genetic parent outweighed wife's interest in donating the pre-embryos to another couple
concluding that a party’s interest in avoiding becoming a genetic parent outweighed the other party’s interest in donating the pre-embryos
holding that resolution of the disposition of a pre-embryo “turns on the parties’ exercise of their constitutional right to privacy”
noting that the balance of interests would be more likely to favor wife “if she could not achieve parenthood by any other reasonable means”
holding in the absence of a prior agreement concerning disposition, “the relative interests of the parties in using or not using the preembryos must be weighed” by the court
noting that “right of procreational autonomy is composed of two rights of equal significance — the right to procreate and the right to avoid procreation”

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Judges: Daughtrey, Reid, Drowota, O'Brien, Anderson

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