Embryology: Dangerous ground

In the first of a two-part analysis, Seamus Burns examines the potential for exploitation, together with ethical issues, in relation to egg sharing within IVF treatment ‘There is no doubting the scale and increasing significance of the utilisation of the “new” assisted reproduction treatments (including IVF under the HFEA 1990) designed to give desperate couples …
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Parentage: Fundamental failures

In the first of a two-part analysis, Seamus Burns questions whether a recent decision of the president of the Family Division is a damning indictment on the infertility industry ‘Consent is a major legal and ethical pillar underpinning assisted reproduction and the regulatory and legislative regime.’ The decision in In the matter of the Human …
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