A widower, granted permission to use an embryo created while his wife was alive, is hoping to find a surrogate. This is his story. “The year of 2018 couldn’t have begun more joyfully, with the birth of our much-longed-for second daughter,” says EF.
“Then it ended in the worst personal tragedy imaginable, when my wife and baby died. It changed the course of my life.” EF, a softly spoken 45-year-old whose real name can’t be disclosed for legal reasons, lost his wife and 1-year-old daughter in a tragic event six years ago, leaving him a single parent to his remaining daughter, then 8.
Over the past two years, EF has been fighting a legal battle to continue his wife’s legacy in a different way – by getting permission from the Royal Courts of Justice for childbirth through surrogacy for their unused embryo they stored in a lab seven years ago, using his own sperm and his late wife’s eggs..
