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> By COLIN FERNANDEZ - More by this author » Last updated at 23:48pm on
2nd
> March 2008
> Comments (15)
>
> A husband is threatening legal action after his estranged wife twice
gave
> birth without his consent by using frozen embryos created while they
were
> still together.
Well he's a fool for not destroying these embryos. It's his property and
he
can do anything he wants with them. He should have just destroyed them and
not even told his former wife about it.
>
>
> The woman deceived a world-renowned IVF clinic into fertilising her on
two
> occasions by forging her husband's signature on a consent form.
>
> Her husband only learned he was the genetic father when one of the
> children
> became seriously ill and a relative broke ranks and contacted him.
>
> Research shows that an increasing number of women desperate to conceive
> are
> duping clinics to be fertilised with eggs for which their former
partners
> have not given consent.
Sure, they won't go to a sperm bank because a Petri dish can't pay child
sup****t lol
>
> Bourn Hall Clinic, in Cambridge, where the world's first "test-tube
baby",
> Louise Brown, was conceived, confirmed it had been contacted by lawyers
> representing the father.
>
> Dr Thomas Mathews, the clinic medical director, said: "There has been a
> case
> where a woman deceived us into implanting embryos without her husband's
> consent.
>
> "The Human Fertility and Embryology Authority recommends that husbands
are
> present, but it is not a legal requirement.
Well at the very least the clinic should have telephoned him. They are
negligent and should be required to pay for the 2 brats.
>
> "If the father chooses to take legal action we can deal with it. This is
> all
> something that happened some time ago."
>
> Dr Mathews refused to name the couple, citing confidentiality, although
he
> said both children were born normally several years ago.
>
> The woman's deception stands in stark contrast to Natalie Evans, who
took
> the legal route by fighting through the courts to have babies with the
> frozen embryos created with her partner before they broke up.
>
> After their relation****p ended, Miss Evans, of Trowbridge, Wilt****re,
> whose
> ovaries were removed after cancer treatment in 2001, still wanted to use
> the
> embryos.
>
> But a British court barred her from doing so and she lost her final
appeal
> against this in the European Court of Human Rights last April.
>
> A spokesman for the HFEA said it believed the legal safeguards to ensure
> both the father and a mother of a frozen embryo had given their consent
> were
> sufficient.
>
> John Paul Maytum, of the HFEA, said: "The systems are there to ensure
the
> proper consent is obtained. It is up to the clinics to implement them."
>
> He added that either partner could withdraw consent to stop the other
> using
> a frozen embryo held at an IVF clinic.
>
> "Of course when a relation****p breaks up it is probably not the first
> thing
> that a person thinks of," he said.
It should be the first thing a man thinks of knowing how malicious females
are.
>
> Mr Maytum said that in the 17 years of the HFEA's existence there had
been
> very few similar cases.
>
> However, recent research by St Bartholomew's Hospital in London,
suggests
> that half of British fertility clinics are being duped into treating
> patients using false identities.
I guess it's too much trouble for them to get a notarised consent form
lol
>
> Many clinics believe they may have experienced fraud such as patients
> lying
> about their age or the true identity of the potential father, said
> researchers.
>
> Dr Josephine Quintavalle, of the pressure group Comment on Reproductive
> Ethics, said: "We do not condone deceit, but it does show how desperate
> women are often to get pregnant."
Especially when some poor slob can be compelled to pay child sup****t.
>
> She added: "If men give their consent to the creation of embryos, I
don't
> think they should be able to withdraw their consent."
Some advice to men: Never give consent to anything a female wants, it's
never in your best interest.
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