After Honeyhline Heidemann received a Stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, she faced a grim reality: The disease would significantly impede her ability to have another biological child.
Seven years later, with the couple now divorced, the question of whether Heidemann should be allowed to use those embryos is the focus of a legal dispute that will be decided by a judge. In court, Honeyhline Heidemann testified that she preferred to be awarded both embryos, but that she would also accept the court dividing the embryos “in kind,” meaning each ex-spouse gets one egg.“I don’t really care about my insurance or anything like that,” she said, referring to another part of the couple’s divorce settlement. “But I care about my embryos.”involving the future of IVF and whether fetuses should be considered life.
Jason Heidemann argues that it would be a heavy burden for him to co-parent more children with his former spouse. But Honeyhline Heidemann said she would consent to her ex-husband not being involved in raising the new children.