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  • Modern Science Marvels – This Woman Wants To Give Birth To Her Dead Daughter’s Baby

    26 May 2016 by Jasmine Stone in Health, Science, Tech/Sci, United Kingdom
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    Read through that headline once more nice and slowly – right, let’s begin.

    A 60-year-old woman in the UK is currently involved in a legal battle, seeking to use her late daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

    She wants to take her daughter’s eggs across to the US, where a clinic will use a sperm donor, and then carry the child herself.

    Over to the BBC:

    Her daughter, who died five years ago, was said to have approved of the plan…

    The UK fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), said, in 2014, the daughter’s eggs could not be released from storage in London because she had not given her full written consent before she had died, from bowel cancer at the age of 28.

    But, in the latest legal proceedings, lawyers acting for the mother told the judges she wanted to fulfil her daughter’s wishes to carry a child created from her frozen eggs and “raise that child”.

    Jenni Richards QC added the eggs would “simply be allowed to perish” if the court did not rule in her favour.

    If the woman’s mother is successful in the court proceedings, she will break new medical ground:

    It was thought if the case had been successful her mother could have become the first person in the world to become pregnant using a dead daughter’s eggs.

    In February 2016, when seeking permission to appeal, her lawyers argued there was “clear evidence” of what the daughter wanted to happen to her eggs when she died.

    Lord Justice Treacy said the case papers had left him doubtful as to whether there would be “sufficiently strong” reasons to allow the challenge to continue further.

    But after hearing submissions in court, he concluded there was “an arguable case with a real prospect of success”.

    Far be it from me to criticise a mother who has lost a child, but I will say one thing on the matter – if this all goes ahead that child will have an interesting time at school when the other kids catch wind of it all.

    [source:bbc]

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