What would the HFEA say to this one? The mother of a murder victim in the United States has vowed to harvest her dead son’s sperm in order to become a grandmother. Missy Evans has pursued a significant legal battle to gain access to Nikolas Evans’s sperm postmortem. Speaking about the controversial decision, she remarked: […] Read more
No surprises from the HFEA in today’s decision to permit exclusion and non-disclosure testing, and to deregulate later onset, lower penetrance conditions. The relevant regulations governing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis become yet more permissive. As CORE correctly anticipated last week, the Authority has re-stated its official position that discarding healthy embryos is entirely permissible if it […] Read more
CORE reflects on attending an open meeting of the HFEA, held on 1st December 2009 at the Barbican Centre in London. In October 2009, the HFEA started its fundamental overhaul of the way in which Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) cases would be regulated in future. The Authority took the significant step of licensing the procedure […] Read more
The Sunday Times coverage (www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article6999861.ece) of the various genetic conditions which can be tested prior to the implantation of an in vitro embryo, has generated considerable debate, not least because some of the identified diseases are definitely not life-threatening. Nevertheless all the embryos in question will be discarded, or as the current Chair of the […] Read more
