The seventh episode of the Progress Educational Trust podcast documents our discussion of proposed changes to UK surrogacy law, featuring contributions from Professor Gillian Black, Beverley Addison, Dr Alan Brown and Alan Inglis.
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We would like to thank Jon Nicoll (who created the opening and closing music for our podcast), and also the Scottish Government (which supported the event featured in the seventh episode).
The next free-to-attend online event from PET, taking place on Wednesday 19 July 2023, will be 'The Women's Health Strategy, One Year On'. Register here.
Registration will also open soon for the 2023 PET Annual Conference, which this year is entitled 'How Much Change Do We Want? Updating Fertility, Embryo and Surrogacy Law'.
The conference is in person only, and will be held in central London on Wednesday 6 December 2023. Further details will be announced in BioNews shortly.
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