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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
Subject: British Widow Loses Case Over Husband's Frozen Sperm
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:15:46 +0100

From InfoBeat:

British Widow Loses Case Over Husband's Sperm

A 34-year-old British woman has lost her legal fight to become pregnant by
her late husband's sperm, BBC News Online reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1947000/1947908.stm

The woman, known in court as "Mrs. U," had asked a London court of appeals
to prevent a Bristol fertility clinic from killing the sperm. The Centre for
Reproductive Medicine says it wants to dispose of the samples because Mrs.
U's 47-year-old husband withdrew his consent for the use of his sperm after
his death. The husband died last year of complications from asthma.

Mrs U alleges that her spouse's consent was withdrawn under duress caused by
one of her husband's doctors.

"There is a natural temptation to try to bend the law so as to give [Mrs. U]
what she wants and what she truly believes her husband would have wanted,"
one of the appeals judges wrote in the court's decision. "But we have to
resist it."

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But http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1809000/1809296.stm
tells another story where a woman has had two children from a dead husband
by using cryogenically preserved sperm. Again lawyers fought against it, but
lost this time.


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