Human Fertilisation and Embryology Regulating

Based on the "Guide to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990", this volume reviews the regulation of assisted conception including complex moral issues such as abortion, embryo research and cloning. It offers a comprehensive guide to the 1990 legislation as well as important legal and technical developments since that time.

Robert G. Lee is Professor of Law and Head of Cardiff Law School. He is the author of SWOT Constitutional and Administrative Law and co-author of Blackstone's Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights. Derek Morgan is Director of Education Chair and Education Development Panel Reader in Health Care Law and Jurisprudence at Cardiff Law School.

Preface

vii

Table of Cases

ix

Table of Statutes

xiii

Human Fertilisation and Embryology -- Ten Years On

1

(22)

Introduction

The legislative debate

The Act and the regulatory body: keeping pace with developments

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

The regulation of assisted conception

Notes

Law, Morals and Assisted Conception

23

(34)

Introduction

Types of philosophical argument

Reproductive rights

Feminisms' responses to reproduction and regulation

The ethic of care

Law and morals

Law and morality: abortion and embryo research

What is infertility and what are its causes?

Concerns with infertility

Why legislate?

Notes

Embryo Research

57

(45)

The timing of early human development

Cells, sperm and eggs

The embryo

The moral status of the embryo

Attitudes to the embryo: ethical approaches

When did I begin: a moveable feast?

The Parliamentary debates on embryo research: the 1990 Bill

Arguments against embryo research

Arguments in favour of embryo research

The legal status of the embryo

In the United Kingdom

European approaches to embryo research

The embryo and the 1990 Act

Law, science and public policy

Notes

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

102

(32)

The composition of the HFEA

The HFEA and information

Directions

Regulations

The Code of Practice

Licences

The Licence Committee

The licensing procedure

Introduction

Inspection

Licence conditions

Revocation, variation and suspension of licences

Audit

Appeals and judicial review

Appeals

Judicial review

The Human Rights Act 1998

Notes

Regulating Clinical Practice

134

(22)

Introduction

What are treatment services?

Why regulate treatment services?

Why form of regulation?

Life at the regulatory boundaries: the case of GIFT

The legality of taking and storing ovarian tissue and gametes

Treatment licences and breach of licence

Criminal offences

Notes

Access to and Delivery of Treatment Services

156

(16)

Access to treatment and questions of resources

Licensing parents? The background to the welfare provisions

The working of the welfare provision

Conscience clauses

Notes

Consent and Counselling

172

(19)

Consent and the common law

Posthumous treatments

Counselling and assisting conception

Notes

Surrogacy

191

(26)

`Sensitive subjects of human endeavour'

Introduction

Surrogacy stories

Incidence of surrogacy

Surrogacy: the standard arguments

Surrogacy and the 1985 Act

Surrogacy and the 1990 Act

HFEA Code of Practice

Enforceability of surrogacy arrangements

Birth registration

The metamorphosis of surrogacy

Technology transfers

Ethical evolution: the views of the BMA

Regulating reproduction: changing the template

The Brazier Review

Commodification and exploitation

The consequences

Notes

Children of the Reproduction Revolution

217

(23)

Status provisions

Mothers

Saving surrogacy

Fathers

Posthumous children

General provisions

Access to information

Conclusion

Notes

Liability and Responsibility

240

(25)

The law of abortion: the 1861 Act and the 1929 Act

Historical background

`Capable of being born alive'?

The law of abortion: the 1967 Act and the 1990 Act

The grounds of abortion

Selective reduction of multiple pregnancy

Medicinal terminations

Civil liability: congenital disability

Congenital disability: product liability

Notes

Assisted Conception: The International Response

265

(41)

Introduction

The challenges of regulating medical practices

International approaches to assisted conception

Scandinavia

Mainland Europe

North America

Australasia

The Middle East and Far East

Notes

Appendix 1 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990

306

(35)

Appendix 2 HFEA Code of Practice (Fourth Edition)

341

(43)

Appendix 3 Glossary

384

(9)

Index

393

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