CHICAGO (AP) - A judge is siding with a Chicago woman seeking to use frozen embryos to have a child over the objection of her former boyfriend.
Karla Dunston was diagnosed with lymphoma four years ago. Knowing chemotherapy would make her infertile, she had embryos frozen before treatment.
Her then-boyfriend, Jacob Szafranski, provided the sperm. They broke up a year later and Szafranski changed his mind, leading to a lengthy court battle.
A Cook County judge on Friday awarded custody of the embryos to Dunston.
The judge said Dunston’s “desire to have a biological child in the face of the impossibility of having one without using the embryos outweighs” Szafranski’s privacy concerns.
Szafranski says he will appeal.
He tells WMAQ-TV (https://bit.ly/1p0Cv57 ) he doesn’t want his child brought into the world against his will.
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Information from: WMAQ-TV.
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