Diane Blood (L) and her children four-year-old Liam (R) and seven-month-old Joel (C) appear before...

Diane Blood (L) and her children four-year-old Liam (R) and seven-month-old Joel (C) appear before the media after emerging from the High Court in London, February 28, 2003. Blood, who fought for the right to have children using her dead husband's sperm, claimed victory on Friday in her legal battle to have her late partner Stephen legally recognized as the father. Under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, which controls all test tube births, when the sperm of a man or an embryo created after his death is used, he is not considered the father of the child. But lawyers for Health Secretary [Alan Milburn] accepted at the High Court on Friday that the law was "incompatible" with the European Convention on Human Rights.