General Chat

I have a lot of sympathy for the woman but my understanding of this case is that the embryos were frozen before her treatment & that British law dictates that the both the prospective parents have to agree to the embryos being brought to life. I don't know what sort of people either the man and the woman involved are but I can imagine how much I would be against my ex-wife having my child now - it wouldn't be the financial aspect but that the time, place & circumstances would be wrong.

This is making me so cross! He can have any number of childen. Surely by consenting to create the embryos in the first place, he also consented to have children. After all, if they had had children before she was ill, they would be in a single parent family now, so what's the difference. I feel SO ANGRY about this - what has happened to women's rights? Allie

Jess I know how desperate I was to have children when I suffered numerous miscarriages before my precious daughters were born. As soon as I knew they existed, even as cells, they were people to me. My heart goes out to you and this lady who have had to tolerate such heart ache. I hope this lady's appeal works. I hope that your ex and this man in the news get the bad karma that is due to them.

that's the problem with science and medicine these days. There's always someone who is going to get hurt. If this poor lady can't have a baby its like another kick in the teeth for her, although I feel for hubbie. Claire

Egg from woman, sperm from man, frozen as a embryo. woman wants embryo , man doesnt WHO GAVE MAN THE LAST WORD? Pippa - doesnt everyone that undergoes IVF find it worrying? when its your only hope, you have to go with it

I agree with the decision made in court however upsetting the outcome is. I do feel though that if she is that desperate to be a mother that there are plenty of children that would love to be cared for. I personally find the the whole subject of IVF quite difficult and I worry about the consequences of man meddling with nature.

been there - My ex made the same decision - excuse me if i now think of him as an uttely selfish bastard. he has two sons, i have nothing

I am inclined to agree to with dawn although I can see it from his point of view, I feel desperately sorry for her that it was her one chance of having children and now it has been taken away. He did agree at the beginning and I just feel that should be enough.

Hi Marie I think it's just very sad. I feel very sorry for the woman but I can also appreciate that the man doesn't want children of his created from a relationship that has long finished. It's a hard fact of life that not all of us were meant to have children and we have to accept that and move on with our lives. I hope this judgement helps her to accept that this battle is over and that she can begin to live her life again with altered expectations.

Where do you stand on the story in the news at the moment regarding the couple who had embryos frozen when they were together, after the woman had cancer treatment.???? They split up, and he has decided that he no longer gives his consent for them to be used. Leaving her childless.