Judges in the UK have ruled that a man who did not continue IVF treatment with his former partner is not the legal father of the child born. The mother of a child born following IVF treatment succeeded in her appeal against a previous court ruling that her former partner...
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The Bundestag, Germany's lower parliamentary chamber, overwhelmingly voted on Thursday in favour of a motion proposing an international ban on human cloning. The proposal called for the German government to work 'within the framework of the United Nations' to move towards a complete ban on both therapeutic and reproductive cloning...
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The courtroom and the clinic
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's BioNews reports on a case in the English Court of Appeal which ruled that a man could not be regarded as legal father to a child born of IVF when the embryos were transferred to his partner at a time when they were no longer a couple. Our...