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
embryos in california superior court. the court needs to give individuals more direction. it needs to give the fertility clinics more direction. what should be in those contracts that can make them impenetrable? reporter: in court documents obtained by abc news lee says the embryos now represent the destruction of my last and final chance of fertility. she s currently infertile given her age and also a cancer survivor. we think that with her infertility, the balance is going to tip in her favor. reporter: lee says finley who wants the embryos destroyed, would have no parental responsibility. he s the biological father, courts will be reluctant to wholesale give him a pass. reporter: this modern-age dilemma fought publicly by sofia vergara, who made a similar decision as she told gma s amy robach. i don t want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself. reporter: her ex nick lobe has filed a second lawsuit, seeking custody of
is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it s what makes a subaru a subaru. before modern family star sofia vergara claimed her new star the on the hollywood walk of fame thursday she squared off with her ex-fiance on morning television over the other reason her name is in the headlines this week. her ex-fiance nick lobe is taking her to court over two frozen embryos they made together before they split up. he appeared on the today show explaining why he wants to bring them to term with or oh without her. not only do i not have any financial motivation i have offered her to waive all
it s sad to trivialize these things. i had a dear friend who had a child through surrogacy. it s a beautiful process. so many people want oh to have children and use the process to have a child. for nick lobe to use this publically is terribly sad. also it speaks to the hollyweirdness of watching people in hollywood and playing to the store owe type. i give her tremendous credit to handle this process and wish her a happy mother s day. she s a good woman. we didn t scratch the surface. there are so many ethical questions that exist here. questions about commerce and money and it is a deeply complicateded set of questions. so i thank you for the work you re doing. i hope we ll have opportunities to talk more about this. i also want to say thank you to dr. robert klitzman danielle moody-mills. i will say happy mother s day to the woman who carried my lovely
enter into it lightly saying sure, i will sign a piece of paper. it can be your sperm, someone else s egg and if i will borrow your car for the afternoon. it needs to to be clear that even though it s simple technologically there are still more responsibilities involved in raising a kid. people need to think about these things carefully. like teenagers have having sex and not thinking a kid may come about as a result. so much less fun. not my experience of having eggs harvested wasn t at all like teenagers having sex. i come in as a new father and our oh child is 2. it is mother s day. to the mother of my child, i love her dearly and i also think to sofia vergara she has a grown child. she s an incredible mother. nick lobe it s bullying. it s bullying a woman you are trying to get revenge because maybe she broke up with you, maybe you re not together anymore.