UK Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts'
Pastor Dale Morgan
*UK Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts'*
From correspondents in London
November 11, 2007 12:00am
Article from: Sunday Herald Sun
PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create
"spare-part babies" under controversial laws published yesterday.
The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating
"saviour siblings" who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of
medical conditions such as leukemia.
Experts said that one day they could create a "designer baby" with
kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure.
More immediately, saviour siblings could give umbilical cord blood or
bone marrow to family members in the hope of treating conditions such as
sickle cell anaemia.
The Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated
in British Parliament and is expected to become law in 2009.
The Daily Mail, in The Sunday Herald Sun