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Description for Flesh and Blood
Paperback. After many hurdles and stumbling blocks, Diane triumphed again and made constitutional history when she was allowed to re-register her children's births. This is a story of life, death and procreation, an emotional roller-coaster that has been nine years of one woman's life. It shows how controversial policies are made that affect all our lives. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: MFKC1; VFXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
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. By then, it was almost four years after his father's death. Baby Joel was born three and a half years later. The legal battles were not over, however, as the law still prevented Diane from naming the boys' father on their birth certificates. After many hurdles and stumbling blocks, she triumphed again and made constitutional history when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act finally came into force on 1 December ... Read more
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. By then, it was almost four years after his father's death. Baby Joel was born three and a half years later. The legal battles were not over, however, as the law still prevented Diane from naming the boys' father on their birth certificates. After many hurdles and stumbling blocks, she triumphed again and made constitutional history when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act finally came into force on 1 December ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845960285
SKU
KLN0018864
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Diane Blood
Diane Blood's campaign to have her husband Stephen's baby through assisted reproductive technology began after he contracted bacterial meningitis and died in 1995. She lives with her two sons, Liam and Joel, in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
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