O wanted: dead or alive! : the right to have a dead partner's child
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Feminist Legal Studies
- Magazine Year
- 1997
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Biggs, Hazel
- Thesaurus
- voortplanting, media, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- The legal case focused on the storage and use of semen without the written consent of the donor while the media coverage concentrated on the sad plight of this devoted widow, whose profound wish was to become the mother of her dead husband's child and fulfil the purpose of their marriage. It is the tensions between these divergent approaches to the case and their impact upon the eventual outcome which is the focus of this case note.