A woman wanting to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild is being allowed to export them to the US for treatment. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) granted permission following a Court of Appeal decision in her favour a few months ago. The daughter, who died in 2011, is said to have asked her mother, now 60, to carry her babies. But she had not given her full written consent before she died, aged 28. Despite this, a spokesman for the UK fertility regulator said the "exceptional and unique circumstances" of the case meant they would grant special permission for the daughter's eggs to be exported to New York. The HFEA concluded that it was unlikely that the daughter - known as AM, who died from bowel cancer - would have refused such consent had she been given proper information about the plans before she died by her parents, Mr and Mrs M. During earlier legal proceedings, lawyers acting for Mrs M sa...
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