Mother in fight for daughter’s frozen eggs

A mother is launching a legal battle for possession of her dead daughter’s frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own grandchild.

Mother in fight for daughter’s frozen eggs

In what may be the first case of its kind in the world, the 59-year-old woman and her husband, 58, are challenging an independent regulator’s refusal to allow them to take the eggs to a US fertility treatment clinic.

The couple say it was the dying wish of their daughter, an only child who died of bowel cancer in her late-20s, that her eggs be fertilised by donor sperm and implanted into her own mother’s womb.

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