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Flesh and Blood
eBook - The Harrowing and Moving Story of a Mother's Fight to Bear Her Late Husband's Children
ISBN/EAN: 9781780578378
Umbreit-Nr.: 7690797
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 304 S., 0.51 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 04.12.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>Diane Blood first hit the headlines in 1996 when she went to court to fight for the right to use her late husband's sperm to try for the child they had planned together before his sudden death from meningitis. Diane's case caused an ethical storm and was debated in the courts, in Parliament and in the media. With huge public support, yet against almost impossible odds, she won on appeal and went on to have two miraculous little boys.</p><p>The legal battles were not over, however, as the law still prevented Diane from naming the boys' father on their birth certificates. After many hurdles and stumbling blocks, she triumphed again and made constitutional history when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act finally came into force on 1 December 2003 and she was allowed to re-register her children's births.</p><p><i>Flesh and Blood</i>asks many important questions and helps provide some of the answers. It shows how controversial policies are made that affect all our lives. Beyond that, it is a simple story of life, death and procreation: an incredibly vivid account written by the woman who lived through the despair and jubilation.</p>
- Kurztext
- Diane Blood first hit the headlines in 1996 when she went to court to fight for the right to use her late husband's sperm to try for the child they had planned together before his sudden death from meningitis. Diane's case caused an ethical storm and was debated in the courts, in Parliament and in the media. With huge public support, yet against almost impossible odds, she won on appeal and went on to have two miraculous little boys. The legal battles were not over, however, as the law still prevented Diane from naming the boys' father on their birth certificates. After many hurdles and stumbling blocks, she triumphed again and made constitutional history when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act finally came into force on 1 December 2003 and she was allowed to re-register her children's births. Flesh and Blood asks many important questions and helps provide some of the answers. It shows how controversial policies are made that affect all our lives. Beyond that, it is a simple story of life, death and procreation: an incredibly vivid account written by the woman who lived through the despair and jubilation.
- Autorenportrait
- Diane Blood's campaign to have her husband Stephen's baby through assisted reproductive technology began after he contracted bacterial meningitis and died in 1995. She lives with her two sons, Liam and Joel, in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.