{"podcast":{"title":"Deborah Lebree's podcast","slug":"deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","podcast_index_feed_id":7041113,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015089/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast--6015089","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/nuvolari-assets/yellow_square_mic.jpg","author":"Deborah Lebree","episode_count":1000,"summary":null,"last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:21:39.869546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113"},"episode":{"title":"A Couple Breaks Up. Who Gets Custody of Their Embryos?","slug":"a-couple-breaks-up-who-gets-custody-of-their-embryos","published_at":"2026-09-10T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/a-couple-breaks-up-who-gets-custody-of-their-embryos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-couple-breaks-up-who-gets-custody-of-their-embryos--75046999","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75046999/default.mp3","summary":"As more people in the United States use I.V.F. to have children, embryos are being stored in fertility clinics across the country. It raises the question: What should happen to those embryos if a couple breaks up?Caroline Kitchener, who covers families for The New York Times, tells the story of Erin Millender, who took a custody battle over frozen embryos to court after her husband revoked his consent to use them.Guest: Caroline Kitchener , a New York Times reporter, writing about the American family.Background reading: They started I.V.F., and then split. Now who gets custody of the embryos ? Photo: Kim Raff for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"As more people in the United States use I.V.F. to have children, embryos are being stored in fertility clinics across the country. It raises the question:…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2730,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/episodes/a-couple-breaks-up-who-gets-custody-of-their-embryos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/a-couple-breaks-up-who-gets-custody-of-their-embryos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}