Widow fights for the right to use sperm taken from her dead husband
She wasn't married to the bloody
government.
A widow is fighting for the right to have a child using sperm taken from her dead husband in a case that reopens the fertility debate sparked by Diane Blood, who had two children from sperm extracted from her husband while he was in a coma.
The 42-year-old woman, who does not want to be named, persuaded doctors to take sperm from her 30-year-old husband, who died suddenly last June, despite not having his written consent. The couple already had one child, a daughter.
In the first reported case of its kind, a judge allowed sperm to be extracted posthumously after a gynaecologist confirmed that the couple had consulted him for fertility advice a week before the man died.
The move contravenes the law and is being questioned by the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority.
The Brits have an Authority which has the right to rule on her life and body…and a few cells from her late husband’s body? They were consenting adults together and now she needs a consenting bloody bureaucrat?
Posted: Mon - May 19, 2008 at 06:45 AM