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When a couple splits, who gets the embryos? New York's highest court will have to decide

It's an old debate among husbands and wives: how many children to have. But Steven and Maureen Kass of Amityville, N.Y., bring something new to the issue: they're wrestling with the question five years after their divorce. The Kasses have five frozen embryos, made from his sperm and her eggs, left over from their married days of trying to conceive by in-vitro fertilization. Maureen, who is 40 and childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight has ended...

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