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ETHICS BRIEFINGS

BMA Ethics Department; ethics@bma.org.uk

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Review of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Historically the UK has taken its time to ponder the controversial issue of regulating assisted reproduction, with a delay of some six years between the original call for legislation in the Warnock Report¹ and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act becoming law. In between there was much consultation and debate – following the Warnock Report came a green paper (consultation document) in 1986² and a white paper (proposals for legislation) in 1987³ before the bill was finally published in 1989. The review of the legislation is similarly being undertaken at a leisurely pace with plenty of time and opportunity for consultation. In 2003, we saw the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s Inquiry into reproductive technologies and the law, which reported in March 2005.⁴ This was followed in July 2005 by a full public consultation document from the Department of Health.⁵ The consultation ended in late November. References in . . . [Full text of this article]

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