Woman still fighting to use embryos
Nov 22nd, 2006 by Lilian
I wrote about this case sometime back. It is about Natalie Evans who wants to use the fertilised eggs which was frozen and stored to implant in her womb and have a baby. However, her partner who helped with the fertilisation, as in giving his sperms, now disagreed to the idea. So, Natalie is trying to get the courts to release the embryos because she is running out of time to have the baby. The embryos won’t be usable after a certain time. She no longer can produce any eggs after her ovaries were removed due to cancer.
A woman left infertile after cancer treatment is making a final appeal to a court for permission to use frozen embryos fertilised by a former partner.
Natallie Evans, of Trowbridge, Wilts, and Howard Johnston began IVF treatment in 2001 but he withdrew consent for the embryos to be used after they split up.
She turned to the European courts after exhausting the UK legal process.
Ms Evans, 34, says her appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court is her last chance to have a baby.
Ms Evans, of Trowbridge, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2001, but six of her fertilised embryos were frozen and stored prior to her treatment. (full news)
Oh well, some people fight over the custody of their children, like Britney Spears and Kevin Federline and some fight even before the baby is a baby.
People will do anything to get a child….
- MENJ