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Mother wants to give birth to own grandson by becoming pregnant using her dead daughter’s frozen eggs

USA:  A mother has launched a legal battle to gain possession of her dead daughter's frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own child - a case which experts believe is "a world first".

The woman, 59, and her 58-year-old husband are challenging a refusal made by an independent regulator to allow them to take the eggs to a fertility treatment clinic in the US.

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