
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 26, 1990                   TAG: 9005260313
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: KNOXVILLE, TENN.                                LENGTH: Short

EX-HUSBAND FIGHTS IDEA OF DONATING EMBRYOS

A woman's decision to donate seven frozen embryos she won in a custody fight, rather than use them to become pregnant, does not end the battle, her ex-husband said Friday.

"I am totally against it," Junior Lewis Davis, who produced the sperm for the embryos, said of his ex-wife's decision to donate them to another childless couple.

"I feel that's my right. If there was a child from them, then I would be a parent to it. And I don't want a child out there to be mine if I can't be a parent to it."

Davis, 31, and his ex-wife, Mary Sue Davis Stowe, 29, have been locked in a legal battle over the four-to-eight-cell embryos conceived through in vitro fertilization in 1988 while they were still married.

- Associated Press

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