This week sees more good news for Michelle and Jayson Whitaker, the British couple who were refused permission by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to use embryo screening (PGD) to provide a bone marrow donor for their sick son. The Whitakers, who travelled to Chicago for the...
What was described by the media as either the 'designer baby' or the 'Hashmi' case was, in effect, neither. The legal arguments in the courts were directed exclusively at the governance of policy making in assisted reproduction. Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) argued that, in 1990, Parliament did not give...
A British couple have succeeded in their quest to have a tissue matched baby. Last summer, the Whitakers asked the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to allow them to use embryo screening (PGD) to provide a bone marrow donor for their sick son. After their request was refused...
Developments in assisted reproduction have opened up new choices for prospective parents over the past few years. IVF and donor insemination allow infertile individuals and couples to have the family that nature has denied them. But they also allow fertile people to make choices about when and how to have...
The Genetics and Public Policy Centre at the Johns Hopkins University in the US has established an expert panel to examine whether there are any health effects on children born from assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). The panel is co-sponsored by the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) and the American Society...
This week's BioNews reports on the latest news about the Hashmi family, who were recently given leave to continue with an embryo screening which might provide life-saving treatment for their son, Zain. A Court of Appeal ruling in April gave them the go-ahead, but details of the three judges' decision...
This week's BioNews reports on the defeat in the Court of Appeal of a legal attempt to stop preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue typing in the UK. The ruling means that the Raj and Shahana Hashmi can now continue with treatment to have a child who is free from...
The UK Court of Appeal has overturned a previous High Court ruling that prevented Raj and Shahana Hashmi from using IVF along with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and 'tissue typing'. The new ruling means they can continue with attempts to conceive a healthy child who would be a possible cord...
The UK Court of Appeal is deciding whether Raj and Shahana Hashmi, the British couple who want to use 'tissue typing' to have a child, will be allowed to continue in their attempts to do so. They are attempting to conceive a child who would be a possible cord blood...
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched a public consultation asking whether people believe that embryo sex selection techniques should be made available for non-medical purposes. The public were last consulted on the issue in 1993, when non-medical sex selection was rejected. Currently, UK law only allows...
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