If I may continue, perhaps I can give way shortly.
Since that time, the Government have amended the Bill to clarify that the reference to ““other tissue”” does not include any whole organ of the child. The Government have sought to provide that safeguard and make it clear that a decision to allow embryo testing on the basis of providing a future organ transplant for a sibling would not be allowed. I can see the Government's good faith in that. They want to extend that safeguard in respect of the saviour sibling becoming a whole organ donor.
Nevertheless, the Bill still contains a definition of ““other tissue””. The matter has been debated and challenged in the other place. I understand from correspondence and debate that when reference was made to extending the safeguard and to defining ““other tissue”” as regenerative tissue—my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mark Simmonds) will probably want to expand on that—the Government's position was that ““other tissue”” certainly does not include whole organs.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
David Burrowes
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 May 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords].
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