UK minister allows prisoner access to artificial insemination

June 13, 2011

If family life is a human right, shouldn’t prisoners be able to father children from behind bars? This is the question being debated in the UK after it emerged that Prisons minister Crispin Blunt approved an unnamed inmate’s request for artificial insemination. According to the London Telegraph, the decision was taken because the prisoner and his partner had already started IVF treatment before he was jailed. (BioEdge)