Human embryos ‘at risk of losing legal protection’ in research

January 13, 2011

The law, which followed recommendations from the 1984 report by Lady Warnock, carefully shelters human embryos from routine experimentation, with research allowed only in carefully vetted circumstances. The Warnock report concluded that “the embryo of the human species ought to have a special status and that no one should undertake research on human embryos the purposes of which could be achieved by the use of other animals or in some other way”. (The Guardian)