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EDITORIAL So will Donovan vs Idant Laboratories We mustn’t succumb Should donated open the floodgates? It seems unlikely. New York’s product liability laws are highly unusual to climate fatigue sperm be just in that they consider donor sperm to be a product just like any other. Most other US another product? states grant special status to blood products THE news on climate change continues to get and body parts, including sperm. In these grimmer. Till now, the official estimates of sea A sperm bank is being sued on states, donor sperm is not considered a level rise have not included any contribution the premise that sperm can be “product” in the usual sense, despite the from the melting of Antarctic ice. It is becoming fact that it is tested, processed, packaged, horribly clear that this is a serious omission. guaranteed like anything else catalogued, marketed and sold. Similarly, As we report first-hand from Antarctica on European Union product liability law could page 34, there are signs that the West Antarctic BRITTANY DONOVAN was born 13 years ago not be used in this way. ice sheet is more vulnerable to climate change in Pennsylvania. Her biological father was Even if this lawsuit is an isolated case, it than w