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60-Year-Old British Woman Wants To Give Birth To Own Grandchild Using Dead Daughter's Frozen Eggs

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A 60-year-old woman is fighting with the British courts for the right to give birth to her own grandchild.

CBS2's Hazel Sanchez reports the woman's 28-year-old daughter froze her eggs when she was first diagnosed with cancer – five years before she died. It was allegedly her dying wish to leave her frozen eggs to her mother.

However, British authorities won't release the woman's eggs to her parents because she never left a full, written consent.

"The ethesis in Britain is that this is in essence unseemly. We should not have a 60-year-old woman giving birth from her own body of her own daughter's eggs," legal analyst Rikki Klieman told CBS2.

The 60-year-old woman lost her case in Britain's High Court, but it is now being considered in appeals court.

Dr. Tomer Singer, a reproductive endocrinologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, told CBS2 that the woman should not be conceiving her daughter's baby.

"Once pregnant, there's a significant increased risk of miscarriage and preterm deliveries and other complications," Singer said, adding that the woman could be injected with hormones to allow her to have children.

Despite the potential complications, some New York parents are backing the British woman.

"I would like to think she's doing it for the right reasons. It's for love. It's to replace this loss," Wendy Israel told CBS2.

Clayton Fletcher said, "Parenthood is always evolving, so who are we to judge?"

If successful with her appeal, the British woman would become the first person in the world to become pregnant using a dead daughter's eggs.

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