PET's Director, Chair of the British Fertility Society and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and others tell Sarah Graham in the BMJ about the changes they would like to see made to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act .
'The law is also 'overly prescriptive' when it comes to introducing new scientific developments, says Sarah Norcross, director of PET.
"It's not really the place for law and government to specify which techniques are permitted. They should allow a regulatory body to hear and weigh the evidence and decide if something’s safe and effective, which would allow new techniques to be introduced much more quickly. Otherwise potential scientific breakthroughs can end up being stymied while waiting for the law to change," she says.'
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