X-Message-Number: 18974 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 Mrs U alleges that her spouse's consent was withdrawn under duress caused by one of her husband's doctors.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." ******* 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. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com : http://www.AlecHarleyReeves.com http://www.longevity-report.com : http://www.autopsychoice.com : http://www.cryonics-europe.org http://www.porthtowan.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18974