THE way embryo research and fertility treatment are regulated in the UK is to undergo a radical overhaul. The government announced this week that with reproductive technologies moving rapidly, it is time to make sure that laws keep pace.
Such a move will doubtless seem strange in the US and other countries where reproductive technologies are only lightly regulated. But the tight rein on which these technologies are kept in the UK has led the government’s watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, to become increasingly embroiled in arguments over such issues as whether to allow babies to be created…
