Fertility regulator wrongfully denied consent for mother’s surrogacy – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted July 5th, 2016 in appeals, assisted reproduction, consent, news, surrogacy by sally

‘The Court of Appeal has ruled that a 60 year old woman may use her daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild. Her daughter, referred to as A in the judgment, died of cancer at the age of 28 in 2011. The High Court had dismissed M’s argument that the HFEA had acted unlawfully by refusing to allow the eggs to be exported to a fertility clinic in the United States where an embryo would be created using donor sperm, and implanted in the mother.’

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UK Human Rights Blog, 1st July 2016

Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com