A ROMAN Catholic mother defended her right to have a test-tube baby and said her four-month-old daughter was 'meant to be.'
Mrs Pauline Livesey and her husband, Peter, from Blackburn, turned to a test-tube clinic after trying for eight years for another child.
As the Vatican outlawed the controversial method of fertilisation in a new document, she spoke out in defence of the practice. Her daughter, Helen Louise, was baptised in a Catholic church.
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