Op-Ed: Why have a free vote on ‘saviour siblings’?

April 9, 2008

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill, currently making its way through the UK’s Parliament, marks the first major re-think of the original Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, passed in 1990. In the almost 20 years since the Act was passed, new medical developments and techniques have emerged which raise their own ethical issues; the time was right for review, not least to ensure that in certain areas the law was entirely clear. (BioNews)