Irish Supreme Court rules stored embryos “not unborn”: No protection under Irish pro-life ConstitutionLifeSiteNews: “An Irish woman has lost her bid in the Supreme Court to have her frozen embryos, left over from her previous in vitro fertilization treatments, implanted in her womb. Despite the Irish constitutional guarantee for the right to life ‘from conception,’ the Supreme Court ruled that the three embryos cannot be implanted against the wishes of the woman’s estranged husband. Mary and Thomas Roche underwent IVF treatment in 2001.” Roche v. Roche & ors [2009] IESC 82 (15 December 2009)
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