A mother who wanted to become pregnant with her late daughter’s eggs has lost her legal bid, according to reports today.

 

The 59-year-old and her husband were seeking legal possession of her late daughter’s eggs, claiming she had wanted her mum to “carry [her]babies”.

 

The parents, whose only daughter died from bowel cancer at the age of 28 in 2011, had challenged an independent regulator’s refusal to allow them take their daughter’s eggs to a fertility clinic in the US.

 

According to reports, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) stated that the eggs could not be removed without the written consent of the couple’s daughter, who can only be referred to as 'A' for legal reasons.

 

Before her death, the couple’s daughter, had had her eggs frozen after she received a diagnosis of cancer in her late twenties with the hope of having a child herself in the future.

 

Mr Justice Ouseley ruled that the HFEA was entitled to state that the deceased woman had not given “the required consent”, saying:  “I must dismiss this claim, though I do so conscious of the additional distress which this will bring to the claimants, whose aim has been to honour their daughter’s dying wish for something of her to live on after her untimely death.”

44 Shares

Latest

Trending