02 August 2015 02 Aug 2015

Consent key to the use of stored gametes after the donor's death

A woman has failed in her bid to use her deceased daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild In R (on the application of IM) v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2015], the High Court heard how the woman's daughter had consented to, and undergone, treatment at an IVF centre for the removal and storage of her eggs The treatment was undertaken to preserve the possibility of having a child notwithstanding her diagnosis of bowel cancer and its treatment