What are the human downsides to IVF? You tell me.

The complicated situations (human and legal) that can arise from the practice of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF):

• 1999: Natallie Evans meets Howard Johnston.
• 2001: The couple undergo IVF after Ms Evans is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, treatment for which will leave her infertile. Mr Johnston's sperm successfully fertilises Ms Evans' eggs, with six embryos frozen for use in the future.
• 2002: The couple split up and Mr Johnston withdraws his consent for the embryos to be stored, meaning by law they must be destroyed.
• 30 June, 2003: Ms Evans joins another woman, Lorraine Hadley, in a London High Court battle to stop their former partners destroying their frozen embryos.
• 1 October, 2003: The women lose their case. Ms Hadley accepts the decision.
• April 2004: Ms Evans fights on and takes her case to the Court of Appeal.
• 25 June, 2004: The Court of Appeal says Ms Evans cannot use the embryos.
• 29 November, 2004: The House of Lords refuses to hear the case. The Lords say her petition "did not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance which ought to be considered by the House at this time, bearing in mind that the cause has already been the subject of judicial determination".
• 27 September, 2005: Ms Evans takes her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
• 7 March, 2006: European judges rule that she does not have the right to use the embryos to have a baby - her only chance of having a child that is genetically her own.

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