Madonna minus child. Or - wanted: Dead oralive! The right to have a dead partner's child

Feminist Legal Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-234

  Biggs, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247418726     PISSN: 09663622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02684882     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Sch.3, para.1 states that "effective consent" means a consent which has not been withdrawn.
2. Sch.3, 2(2)(b).
3. See "Widow Barred from Going Abroad to have Husband's Baby", The Times, November 22nd 1996.
4. Sch.3 para.5(3).
5. Human Tissue Act 1961, s.1(2).
6. See, for example, I. Kennedy, Treat me Right: Essays in Medical Law and Ethics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 225-36.
7. Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, Cmnd 9314 (1984).
8. Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, Ibid., at para.4.4.
9. Specifically, Sch.3 para.2(2)(b), and Sch.3 para.8(1) which stipulates that semen must only be stored and or used after the donor's death in accordance with his expressed wishes.
10. See S.A.M. McLean, "Reproductive Medicine", in C. Dyer, ed., Doctors, Patients and the Law (Oxford: Blackwells, 1992), 89-105 at 101.
11. Re F (Mental Patient Sterilisation) [1990] 2 A.C. 1 (H.L.).
12. Airedale NHS Trust v. Bland [1993] 2 W.L.R. 316, per Lord Goff at 365-6.
13. Claire Dyer, "Whose Sperm is it anyway?", British Medical Journal 313 (1996), 837.
14. The Guardian, 4th October 1996.
15. In the Matter of Baby M (1988) 537 A 2d 1227 (NJ Sup Ct).
16. See M. Hoffman, "On the Issues", The Journal of Substance for Progressive Women VIII (1987), 3, 22-24, in J. Scutt, ed.,
17. The Baby Machine: Commercialisation of Motherhood (Melbourne: McCulloch, 1988), 308-313.
18. The Baby Machine: Commercialisation of Motherhood 1988), 308-313.Ibid.
19. Supra n.16.
20. Unnatural here is used to denote the intervention of other people or technology to secure conception which is traditionally viewed as a "natural" process.
21. Sally Sheldon, "Multiple Pregnancy and (Re)productive Choice", Feminist Legal Studies V/1 (1997), 100.
22. See S. Sheldon, "'Who is Mother to make the Judgement?': Constructions of Woman in English Abortion Law", Feminist Legal Studies 1/1 (1993), 3-22,
23. and M. Thomson, "Women, Medicine and Abortion in the Nineteenth Century", Feminist Legal Studies 3/2 (1997), 159-83.
24. The Guardian, Editorial, 4th October 1996.
25. R v. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, ex p Blood, (1997) New Law Journal Reports, 254.
26. It is interesting to reflect that any child born to Diane Blood following insemination with her dead husband's sperm will be illegitimate, since s.28 (6) of The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 stipulates: "Where ... the sperm of a man ... was used after his death, he is not to be treated as the father of the child."
27. Scutt, supra n.16, at 1.