A WOMAN fighting for the right to have her own child has been given a date to take her case to the Court of Appeal.
Natalie Evans, from Trowbridge, is to make a last ditch effort to save six frozen embryos being stored at a Bath clinic when she goes to the Royal Courts of Justice in London on March 24.
Miss Evans is appealing against the High Court decision taken in October that the test tube embryos she created with a former partner must be destroyed.
The embryos were created by Miss Evans and her former fianc, Howard Johnston, so they could still have children after she underwent life-saving cancer treatment that left her infertile.
When the couple parted Mr Johnston withdrew his consent for them to be used and Miss Evans began a long battle through the courts.
Current IVF law states both parties have to be in agreement for frozen embryos to be used.
Miss Evans is arguing that Mr Johnston gave his consent at the time they were created and cannot remove it now and that if a woman conceived naturally a man could not legally force her to get rid of the embryo.
If she wins her case it could set a precedent for many other women in similar situations.
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