[Avodah] Yichus and IVF

[Rich, Joel]

"If a Jewish woman donates an egg for IVF to a non-Jewish couple, what
is the 
status of the child?"

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In general these issues seem to be  still in flux, especially when you
think about surrogate mothers and cloning and realize we're also asking
who (if there is one) is the halachik father, mother, first born.....
The early halachik sources are very sparse.

 
BTW is it well known that R'SZA and R'HS apparently hold that we are not
doche shabbat for a brit of an IVF (or artificial insemination  iiuc)
baby (and I would guess pidyon would be without a brachia - all based on
a comment by rabbeinu channanel (iirc) on the ambatya pregnancy case)?
 
KT
Joel Rich







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