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Wed 07 Jul 2006New court hearing in embryos case opens tomorrowA case concerning whether frozen embryos constitute the "unborn" under the Constitution, and are therefore entitled to the right to life, will open in the High Court tomorrow, write Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Correspondent, and Alison Healy.This follows the court's decision that a woman whose eggs helped to create the embryos cannot have them implanted in her womb against the will of her husband, from whom she is now separated.