Can a woman be denied motherhood if the husband who earlier gave his sperm for an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure now has withdrawn his consent and seeks divorce? This is a question posed by a Bengaluru woman before the Karnataka High Court. The 41-year-old woman has sought a direction for the Koramangala-based clinic to utilise her husband’s frozen sperm for IVF treatment. I cannot even have another donor, and I cannot use the husband’s sperm because of the consent mandated under law.” Ahamed also contended that consent was implied in the husband’s act of giving sperm for future IVF.