Evans v United Kingdom: What Implications for the Jurisprudence of Pregnancy?

This article uses the 2007 case of Evans v United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights) to analyze human rights provisions in the area of reproductive technologies. Ms. Evans and her then-partner underwent fertility treatments in the course of which they froze some of Ms. Evans' embryos. The case concerned the use of those embryos after the relationship had ended, against Ms. Evans' partner's wishes. The case implicated Articles 2, 8, 12 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, with a particular focus on Article 8, the right to freedom from interference in private life.

Mary Ford, Evans v United Kingdom: What Implications for the Jurisprudence of Pregnancy? (2008) 8:1 Oxford Human Rights Law Review 171.