Couples win the right to use IVF to create ‘spare part babies’

November 12, 2007

Parents of sick children will be allowed to use IVF to create “spare part babies” under controversial laws published yesterday. The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating “saviour siblings” – who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukaemia. Experts said that one day they could create a “designer baby” with kidneys which are perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure. (The Daily Mail)