"Supreme Court: In vitro children might not be due benefits" http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/...preme-court-in-vitro-20120521,0,2325938.story this is a interesting one, should a fathers child get social security death benefits if they are born AFTER the father has died .
I think it should be if the baby is conceived after the death of the father. Perhaps the couple were planning to have a baby together, then the father unexpectedly died after the mother was already pregnant. This brings up interesting questions of what should be done if the father was expected to die before, or soon after the baby is born.
Why is it an issue at all? Are they trying to pinch pennies in the program by going after these rare cases?
The Oxford Fertility Unit's Tim Child said it would give hope to many couples... IVF should be given sooner and to older women, says NICE 19 February 2013 - Couples struggling to have a baby should get fertility treatment more quickly and older women should gain access to IVF, new NHS guidelines say.
Uh-oh, Oops!... Switched embryos and wrong sperm: IVF mix-ups lead to babies born with unintended parentage Sunday 31st July, 2016 - Accidentally switched embryos. Wrong sperm. The burgeoning field of assisted procreation can involve serious medical blunders, experts are warning, including misdirected embryos embryos that end up in the wrong womans body.