The parents of three children who are the remaining survivors of a set of quadruplets are expected to receive more than £1 million in damages from Bromley Health Authority after claiming that the children were 'wrongfully conceived'. Lawyers for the couple argued that Clive and Vivien Heath were not given...
A High Court judge last week granted permission for a judicial review of a clinic's decision not to release records of sperm donors to their 'children'. Joanna Rose, a 29 year-old woman from Brisbane, Australia, and the parents of a five year-old British boy born from donor insemination, were brought...
The Department of Health has announced that new legislation to ban reproductive cloning will be introduced in Parliament next week. Speaking on Friday, the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, said that there will be a bill with the specific and singular intention of making reproductive cloning a criminal...
The ProLife Alliance last week succeeded in its quest to point out a so-called 'loophole' in the law that fails to prohibit human reproductive cloning. In a High Court ruling, the claim made by the organisation that human embryos created by cell nuclear replacement (CNR) are not protected by the...
Following a two-year public consultation, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Human Genetics Commission have announced that there is wide support for embryo screening - otherwise known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - for couples where there is a family history of serious genetic disorders. The two organisations said...
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No need to panic over cloning ruling
by Juliet Tizzard
The ProLife Alliance is no doubt feeling pretty pleased about its triumph in the High Court last week, which ruled that human cloning is effectively unregulated in the United Kingdom. But it's hard to see what everybody else will gain from the exercise. The only other person who seems to...