Widow Wins Right to Have Dead Husband's Baby

In the first ruling of its kind in Australia, a Melbourne woman has won a seven-year battle to have her dead husband's baby.

The Victorian civil and administrative tribunal has ruled that the 36-year-old woman, whose husband died in a car accident in 1998, can be impregnated with his frozen sperm.

A court ruled shortly after his death that the man's sperm could be taken and stored at the Royal Women's hospital in Melbourne. But because posthumous conception is illegal in Victoria, the woman will have to transport the sperm to New South Wales for the procedure.