Spanish clinic allows IVF embryo donation ‘without consent’

July 27, 2010

A fertility clinic in Spain is offering patients the option of using embryos ‘left-over’ from previous treatments without the donors’ explicit consent, the Telegraph reports. The Instituto Marques clinic near Barcelona, which provides fertility treatment to foreign couples, runs an ’embryo adoption scheme’ whereby patients can adopt an embryo which has been left behind by couples who have not decided whether to donate it to other patients, to research, or to destroy it. (BioNews)