Clinic in fertility battle will not destroy embryos

THE fertility clinic involved in the legal battle over the three human embryos said it would not be destroying them and that they would be kept indefinitely.

The SIMS fertility clinic in Dublin, which had the embryos frozen in a batch in 2003, said they would remain in storage pending a court order or bilateral agreement by the couple involved on what should happen to them.

High Court judge Mr Justice Brian McGovern said the three embryos were not unborn as defined by the Constitution.