Embryology: Hidden fertility icebergs?

Seamus Burns | Family Law Journal | April 2022 #212
In the first of a two-part consideration, Seamus Burns asks whether egg, sperm and embryo freezing are encouraging costly and harmful fertility gambling Where a treatment option is not available equally to all individuals, this violates the medical ethics justice principle and is hence iniquitous. It arguably puts too much emphasis and focus on individual …

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Parental Rights: Whose baby is it anyway?

Outer Temple Chambers (Chambers of James Counsell QC, Sarah Crowther QC and Keith Bryant QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | March 2011 #93
Susan Freeborn assesses the legal status of the fetus ‘The proposition to tackle is this: the fetus has a right to life against everyone in the world except its mother. The only person who may, with the law’s blessing, end the life of the fetus is the mother of the fetus.’ Why is it that …

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