Mother clears hurdle on path to giving birth to own grandchild

Feb 26, 2016 by

by John Bingham, Telegraph:

A mother has won the right to challenge a decision barring her from giving birth to her own grandchild using frozen eggs from her daughter who died of cancer.

The 60-year-old, who can be identified only as “Mrs M”, argues that her daughter had been desperate to have children and asked her to “carry my babies” before her death at the age of 28 in June 2011.

She hopes to take the eggs to a clinic in the US to be fertilised with donor sperm in what, it is thought, could be the first case of its kind in the world.

But the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) refused to grant special permission to release the eggs because her daughter had not given clear written authorisation.

That decision was upheld by the High Court last year but two senior judges have now given the mother permission to challenge it at the Court of Appeal.

Lord Justice Treacy and Lord Justice Floyd said it was arguable that the HFEA and the High Court had taken “too stringent” an approach to determining the dying woman’s wishes.

They said he had been swayed by arguments by Jenni Richards QC, for the mother, that a conversation the two women had about the plan should have been given more weight.

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