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How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that a party who wished to use a pre-embryo to become a genetic parent would have a weightier interest than one who sought to donate the pre-embryo
• declining to interpret one provision of a statute in such a way as would render another provision of the statute \mere surplusage\
• ‘“Pre-embryo’ is a medically accurate term for a zygote or fertilized egg that has not been implanted in a uterus. . . . An embryo proper develops only after implantation.” (citation omitted)
• ‘“Pre-embryo’ is a medically accurate term for a zygote or fertilized egg that has not been implanted in a uterus. . . . An embryo proper develops only after implantation.” (citation omitted)
• ‘“Pre-embryo’ is a medically accurate term for a zygote or fertilized egg that has not been implanted in a uterus. . . . An embryo proper develops only after implantation.” (citation omitted)
• “We do not interpret a party’s commencement of the IVF process, on its own, to establish the party’s automatic consent to become the genetic parent of all possible children that could result from successful implantation of the pre-embryos.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).