How should legal issues be approached in respect to fertility procedures?

So, I think some of the overriding advice that I would give to couples who are seeking IVF, be it emergency IVF or be it ovarian cryopreservation or whatever other mechanisms, is really the most important advice is do seek legal advice from a qualified attorney in your area who deals with these cases with your state law. I mentioned before that a lot issues come up that you don’t necessarily think about beforehand whether it's potential divorce, death, separation, all sorts of issues and problems that could come up that somebody who has dealt with this before would at least make you address. I also would point out that, and I know, for example, patients who enter clinical trials, the hospital may have a lawyer on staff who would explain certain things to you but people who enter into clinical trials should remember that lawyers must, by their own rules and by their own ethical sense, they must represent their own clients, and a hospital lawyer’s client is the hospital, and that doesn’t sort of mean that they’ll lie to you and that they’ll mislead you, but at the same time, their job is to protect their client which is the hospital.
And so, it’s best to get your own legal advice and legal counsel whose job would be to protect you as opposed to the hospital. Sometimes in terms of advice to where to get that attorney or sometimes your treating physician, especially in such elective procedures as IVF, you know he may have dealt with the certain attorneys in the past and can recommend to the extent that they can’t pretty much every state now has a state bar association well, every state does have a state bar association, but almost all of them maintain a Web site where you can either find a lawyer on the Web site or call in. What bar associations in general will not do, they won't say, “This lawyer is better on the other one,” but at least they’ll give you a number of people in your area who specialize in whatever you’re interested in. In that way, you can either call them and talk to them individually or seek advice of other people who may have gone through a same procedure. But really sort of the overriding advice would be do seek legal counsel for two reasons: 1) it will help avoid certain problems, and 2) to the extent if a problem arises, it is generally will be much cheaper to do it upfront than do it in the back and would have to, not just draw up a contract, but actually litigate this issue up and down in the court systems of the various states.