Before the upcoming UK general election was announced, Alex Davies-Jones – Parliamentary Candidate for Pontypridd – recorded the following presentation for the PET event 'IVF Add-Ons: Building Bridges between Clinics, Regulators and Patients'.
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
In her presentation, Davies-Jones discusses the Fertility Treatment (Transparency) Bill that she has proposed in Parliament.
Davies-Jones also discusses a recently announced change to the law, that will enable people with HIV to donate eggs or sperm (see BioNews 1239).
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