DIANE BLOOD

I'm Diane Blood: writer and widow who fought through the courts and parliament for the right to use my deceased husband's sperm for... Diane Blood first hit the headlines in 1996 when she went to court to fight for the right to use her late husband's sperm to try for the child they had planned together before his sudden death from meningitis. Diane's case caused an ethical storm and was debated in the courts, in Parliament and in the media. With huge public support, yet against almost impossible odds, she won on appeal and went on to have two miraculous little boys, Liam and Joel. After a particularly precarious pregnancy and after spending the first days of his life in the Intensive Care ward of the baby unit, Liam was finally allowed home on Christmas Eve 1998. By then, it was almost four years after his father's death. Baby Joel was born three and a half years later... I'm Diane Blood: Widow who won court battle and gave birth to my deceased husband's children after his death. I..

Primary location: United Kingdom