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UK court allows posthumous use of embryo despite lack of written consent
In a recent decision, the family division of the High Court of England and Wales allowed a husband to use an embryo created by in vitro fertilization with his wife for birth by surrogacy, even though the wife (who died after creation of the embryo by IVF) didn’t provide written consent for this use. The decision has attracted media attention in the United Kingdom as “a landmark legal case,” which “could be the UK’s first Read more…