ABSTRACT
The long awaited judgment by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Evans v The United Kingdom was handed down on 10 April. The outcome of the decision was not a surprise for the majority of commentators who have been awaiting this judgment. However, from the news reports surrounding the case it would appear that the decision was a surprise, and obviously a huge disappointment to Natallie Evans. The alleged violation of the European Convention on Human Rights related to the embryos themselves, that the legal requirement to destroy the stored embryos once consent had been withdrawn violated the embryos' right to life. The right to respect for private life, was agreed to include the right to respect for both the decision to become and not to become a parent and that this also includes the decision to become a parent in the genetic sense.
