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WOODWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY

435 Mass. 536 (2002)

LAUREN WOODWARD v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 2, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Fallon for the plaintiff.

George B. Henderson, II, Assistant United States Attorney (Karen Aviles, of Maryland, with him) for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has certified the following question to this court. See S.J.C. Rule 1:03, as appearing in 382 Mass. 700 (1981).

"If a married man and woman arrange for sperm to be withdrawn from the husband for the purpose of artificially impregnating the wife, and the woman is impregnated with that sperm after the man, her husband, has died, will children resulting from such pregnancy enjoy...

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