UK Reproductive Tech Bill Allows Much More Than Human/Animal Hybrids
Proposes other sweeping, radical changes to 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
By Hilary White
LONDON, May 22, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) – British pro-life organization, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), has called the Labour government’s new embryo research bill “unethical” and will likely oppose it vigorously.

Anthony Ozimic, confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com that the legislation codifies into primary legislation what had until now only been allowed piecemeal by the regulatory agency, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Over the years since its establishment in 1991, the HFEA has become notorious for permitting experimentation on living human embryos regardless of the objections of traditional ethicists.

Ozimic predicted that it would be a year before the legislation passes into law and it must first go through an examination in health committees. Little hope exists for it to be substantially altered or quashed, however, since the Labour party holds a majority in the House of Commons and most of the opposition Tory MP’s have little objection in principle for the use of embryos in research.
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