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Nearly a decade ago I suggested that these practices illustrate ways that ART implicates equality concerns. Crossley M. , “Dimensions of Equality in Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies,” Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 9, no. 2 (2005): 273–289. Ouellette goes further by identifying how laws prohibiting sex-based selection connect the two practices.

See Ouellette , supra note 1.

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See Ouellette , supra note 1.

See, generally, Solomon A. , Far From the Tree (Scribner: New York, 2012).

Czapanskiy K. , “Chalimony: Seeking Equity Between Parents of Children with Disabling Conditions and Chronic Illnesses,” N.Y.U. Journal of Law & Social Change 34, no. 2 (2010): 253–298.

See Ouellette , supra note 1.

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S.B.1810, Pub. L. 110–374 (2008).

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