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 to extended storage, Natalie’s comment was  in the end re-written to update readers that the government has – in a last minute u-turn – agreed to amend the regulations again. The decision will save a small group of ‘out of time’ embryos from destruction and has been welcomed by the affected parents.

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