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Thursday October 2, 2003
UK Mothers Lose High Court Case to Have Their Frozen Embryonic Children Implanted
Case Proves Again the Disastrous Effect of In Vitro Fertilization
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LONDON, October 2, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two mothers have lost a High Court case to have the frozen embryos they created with their estranged partners implanted. Natallie Evans and Lorraine Hadley challenged the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act which says joint consent of the parties is required to implant the frozen embryos even after their creation. The court ordered their embryonic children destroyed, but the order is stayed pending their appeals.
One of the mothers, Lorraine Hadley, said after the ruling: "An embryo is not just a possession to be divided up in the divorce proceedings. It is a baby in the making. I fully accept that men have rights too. But I find it abhorrent that we should be allowed to create these little human beings - and then flush them down the toilet on a whim. Why should one of us have the right to say the embryos should be destroyed simply because it doesn't suit them any more?"
Hilary White of Campaign Life Catholic commented that the situation shows again the illegitimacy of in vitro fertilization. "Apart from the fact that some nine created unborn children die for every one which is born by this procedure, in vitro fertilization also denies the child the right to be conceived in the loving union of a husband and wife," White told LifeSite.
The women may still apply to the Court of Appeal and beyond that may take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.
See related local coverage:
http://www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article_43387.shtml
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/6960563?source=PA
(with files from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children UK)
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