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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9558

6 December 2007
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 41
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Woman undergoing IVF treatment is not pregnant until embryo has been implanted, says Advocate General

Luxemburg, 05/12/2007 (Agence Europe) - A woman is not considered pregnant unless she is actually carrying a baby, states Advocate General Dámaso Ruiz-Colomer in conclusions returned on 27 November (case C-506/06). The reason that this question was raised at all relates to the case of a woman who was dismissed after the in vitro fertilisation of one of her eggs, but before the embryo had been implanted. On the basis of several scientific definitions of “pregnancy”, the advocate general...

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