Experts say a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling—which allowed a litigant to destroy frozen pre-embryos—suggests the fate of similar litigation will rest on signed agreements between the parties involved.

In its 7-0 ruling from the bench, the justices didn’t directly address the ethical issues, such as when an embryo becomes a life. That, the justices said, they’d save “for another day.” Rather, the high court focused on whether there was an enforceable contract between the litigants—a couple who later got divorced.

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