Couples fight for embryos in divorce cases

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Fertility and IFV specialist Dr Ruchik Sarvaiya during the interview at the Wings IVF Centre at Nephromed. April 15, 2021. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

A few years ago, in divorce cases, couples mainly fought for property. Soon more divorcees will be fighting for sole custody of embryos frozen in some fertility clinic?

Amid the increase in the number of Kenyans getting children through intro vitro fertilisation (IVF), where a sperm and egg are fertilised in a lab before implanted in the womb, and marriages are not everlasting, the kinds of disputes that courts will start settling will be battles over embryos.

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