Legal battle to use dead son's sperm
A 60-year old couple are to mount a legal battle for the right to have a grandchild using the sperm of their dead son. Natasha and Barry Smith from Worcestershire lost their only son, Lance, last November when he was killed in a road accident at the age of...
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The trouble with freezing
by Juliet Tizzard
Two stories in this week's BioNews highlight the benefits and the drawbacks of freezing human eggs and sperm. Carolyn Neill is challenging a Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) ruling that whilst she has been allowed to have her eggs frozen, she is unable to use them to get pregnant...