Court ordered a woman to hand over embryos to the parents of her deceased husband: details of the case

The court decided to transfer the embryos to the parents of the deceased person. Judge Serhiy Yedamenko ruled that Anastasia Kuzmenko must give three of the six embryos to her deceased husband's parents, despite the fact that the woman categorically refuses to do so. The couple attempted to have children through reproductive technologies, but the procedure was interrupted due to the husband's death. Now the court has decided that Anastasia must transfer some of the preserved embryos to her late husband's parents.

Judge Serhiy Yedamenko explained to reporters that the full text of the decision is still being written, so currently only the resolution part is available.

Law enforcement and Anastasia's lawyer Lyudmila Kyrylenko believe that the embryos are biological material, and no clinic can transfer them to relatives without the mother's consent. They also confirmed their intention to appeal this decision in court.

An employee reported that after her husband's death, his parents began to pressure her, demanding that she hand over the embryos and give up part of the inheritance. However, the woman remains firm in her opinion and emphasizes that she is not ready to bear a child in such a situation.

Unique case of childbirth from an embryo from 1994

A child was born in Tennessee from an embryo that was frozen in 1994. This became possible thanks to the IVF procedure that a woman named Linda Archerd underwent. She had stored the embryos for over 30 years, paying $1,000 a year for that.

The doctors managed to create four embryos, one of which was implanted into the woman's uterus, while the remaining three were cryopreserved. Later, Linda decided to donate the embryos to other families. She is now over 60 years old, and many clinics refused to work with her biological material due to outdated freezing methods.

After the woman's father's death, the court decided that the embryos should be handed over to his parents, despite the mother's opposition. This case highlights the complexity of legal aspects in the field of reproductive technologies and the inheritance of biological material.