Virginia judge Richard Gardiner (left) has been slammed for using a slave code from 1849 to rule that frozen embryos are property after a woman wanted to use ones made with her ex-husband.
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Citing a 19th-century law governing the treatment of enslaved people, a Virginia judge last week ruled that frozen human embryos can legally be considered property, or “chattel.”