It Takes Two To Tango And IVF A Child In Britain

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Posted to Legal on Sat Apr 14, 2007 at 10:16:51 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

One reviewer of Natallie Evans' travail pronounced her "a hard case."  The 35-year-old British woman had already received her share of bad news in the form of a diagnosis of ovarian cancer back in 2001.  Desperate to have a child, she and her partner Howard Johnston began in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment by freezing six embryos created from her eggs and his sperm.  But, less than a year after they had the embryos frozen, Johnston wanted out of the arrangement and that put the brakes on Ms. Evans' attempts to give birth to a child.  Because, under British law both parties must consent to IVF procedures.  Now, the "hard case" of Natallie Evans just became harder as the highest appeals court in Europe came down on the side of the British law.

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