Samantha Jefferies has every reason to be overjoyed: after a lengthy court case, the 42-year-old British woman has won the right to use her deceased husband’s sperm to have a baby.
Jefferies and her husband Clive, who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, had been undergoing IVF when Clive died of a brain haemorrhage in 2014. He was 51.
Before Clive passed away the couple had been through two failed rounds of IVF, including a miscarriage at 8 weeks, and were preparing for a third attempt.
The couple had initially been told that their embryos could be stored for 10 years. However the fertility clinic changed this to two years when public health funding ran out, meaning that Jefferies had missed the deadline to use them.
The clinic admitted that they should have alerted Jefferies to the change and offered to pay for any legal fees.
On September 28, the family court ruled that the amendment made by the clinic was “invalid”, meaning that the embryos can still be stored and used.
“After two years of hell, I have finally been granted the chance to use the embryos Clive and I so badly wanted,” Jefferies wrote in London’s Sunday Telegraph.
“I think about how this baby might look like Clive, and share his good looks, his fitness, his love of the outdoors.”
Jefferies admitted that the prospect of raising children alone was “daunting”, but that she knows she will have plenty of support.
“I know these babies are going to be so well looked after by the incredible friends Clive has left behind,” she said.
“And when they grow up, I’ll tell them about their brave, gentle father, and the extraordinary chain of events that brought them to us.”
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