he Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that frozen embryos are "marital property" and can be destroyed, even over the objection of the biological father.
Timothy Goodwin and Jessica Bilbao had undergone in-vitro fertilization while they were legally married, leading to the birth of a child. They decided to cryogenically preserve and store the rest of their embryonic children at a fertility clinic for future implantation. In the process, they made a contract with the clinic that in the event of divorce the embryos would be discarded.