Today marks an important step in English fertility law, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 – the first major review of UK fertility law for 19 years – coming into force. Our website has been fully updated to take account of all the changes which...
Embryos, eggs and sperm
Morally straightforward but legally complex: a welcome change to the new embryo storage rules – Article published in Bionews
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the new embryo storage regulations. Originally planned as a call on the government to amend the proposed new regulations to ensure that a group of precious embryos were not excluded from the new rights...
Government bows to pressure on embryo storage rules – NGA victory and in the news
We welcome the Department of Health’s announcement today that embryos which exceed their five year storage period before 1 October 2009 will not now have to be destroyed (article in the Times today). We have been in contact with the Department of Health on this issue...
NGA embryo dispute case in the news
The media has featured a case we are acting in involving a couple from Gloucester who are fighting to save their stored embryos. A question of timing means that Mr and Mrs Gladwin do not benefit from fertility law regulations which would otherwise allow them to store...
NGA quoted in the Sunday Times – Embryo storage law leaves some parents out in the cold
Natalie Gamble was quoted in the Sunday Times on 5 July (and in the Daily Mail on 6 July) on problems raised by the government’s proposed new embryo storage laws. Fertility law allows people facing medical treatment which will make them infertile to store eggs, sperm...