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In Vitro Fertilization

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In this essay I will discuss the controversial use of In Vitro Fertilization in a case where a mother is willing to act as a surrogate to her deceased daughter’s child. A woman showed up in The High Court in London, demanding freedom to take her daughter’s eggs to a New York fertility treatment clinic in order for the woman to act as a surrogate for her own grandchild. This happened after her daughter’s death in 2011, and claimed her daughter wanted her to carry her children. I will continue to interpret this case from different social perspectives: the scientific view, the ethic view, and the legal view.
In order for me to do this I will have to explain briefly how the process of In Vitro Fertilization works. In Vitro Fertilization, or IVF, is the process where a woman’s egg is extracted from the body it is later fertilized by a male’s sperm in a …show more content…

M (the mother), referred this way for legal reasons as well. Mrs. M claims that A (the daughter) last wishes was for her mother to carry out and raise her child as one of their own. The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority's (HFEA) refuses to let the parents take their daughters eggs for a fertility treatment to New York, as they lack of evidential proof of the daughter’s recording. The parent’s lawyer argued how the HFEA didn’t respect the Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, while the HFEA’s lawyer argued the inconvenience of the absence of evidence on the case, which cannot determine the daughter’s real wishes. It is also believed that the daughter might have not been aware of the mother’s risk during pregnancy, which may have altered her ultimate decision. The case has already been discussed in court for the third time after several refusals’s from the HFEA and is currently being analyzed by the judge, Mr. Justice Ouseley, and his final judgment will be announced in the near

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