Mother Battles To Have Dead Daughter’s Baby

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A mother is going to court to fight for the right to have her daughter’s child using her dead daughter’s frozen eggs.

According to Daily Mail, UK; the British woman, 59, and her husband, 58, claim it was their daughter’s dying wish that she should carry the child. She had her eggs frozen after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in the hope she could have children after treatment. But she lost her battle for life four years ago, while in her mid-20s.

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world, the woman wants her daughter’s eggs fertilised by donor sperm and implanted into her womb. So far, clinics in the UK have refused to treat the mother.

A clinic in New York has agreed to carry out the procedure, at an estimated cost of £60,000, but the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has refused the couple’s application to export their daughter’s frozen eggs to the US, on the grounds that she did not give clear written consent.

The parents are now challenging the ruling in the High Court. If successful, the woman would be the first in the world to give birth to a baby using eggs from her dead daughter, experts believe. But because of her age, her chances of becoming pregnant using the eggs are small.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk