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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Widower wins right to use embryo of late wife to have baby using surrogate

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A widower has won a landmark ruling to use the last embryo created with his late wife during fertility treatment to have a baby using a surrogate.

Fern-Maria Choya died at the age of 40 after her womb ruptured while carrying twin girls, 18 weeks into the pregnancy.

The expecting mother had undergone multiple IVF cycles since 2013 with her husband, Ted Jennings, 38.

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