Woman loses European frozen embryo case
Tue Mar 7, 2006 10:57 AM GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - An infertile British woman on Tuesday lost her European Court of Human Rights challenge to British rulings which said she cannot use six frozen embryos fertilised by her ex-partner.

Natallie Evans, 34, had wanted to have the embryos implanted in a bid to have a baby naturally, despite opposition from the man who provided the sperm.

She spent years in the British courts seeking access to the embryos but the High Court and Court of Appeal both ruled she was not entitled to them because her former partner, Howard Johnston had withdrawn his consent for them to be used. The rest