My Lords, we have heard from legal and medical experts. I am happy to say that I am not an academic and I know very little about the subject. However, it strikes me that if we look at the practicalities from the point of view of the parents who are afflicted by this condition, and we turn back to 1978 when baby Louise Brown was born as a result of the in vitro fertilisation undertaken by Steptoe and Edwards—
Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Ribeiro
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 24 February 2015.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Mitochondrial Donation) Regulations 2015.
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2014-15
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