Penny Booth: Fertile Imaginings

It is something of a relief to discover that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act has teeth after all. Somebody's been bitten. On Friday two men from Reading were found guilty of well how can one put this? How about simply but among other things - running a home-made fertility service from the basement of a house facilitating introductions between donors and recipients and sending out sperm by courier at 300 pounds a.... well not sure whether ‘go' or ‘try' would be appropriate.

The claim by the defendants was that they were not doing what clinics do and therefore did not need a licence. This claim was rejected and sentencing will take place later this month. You can read more about the case here of course as we like to keep up with developments but a few comments cannot be avoided.

If we have spent all that time debating only some of the ethics of IVF and alternatives to...

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