UK embryo research: embryo protection bill resurfaces.
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Embryo research is lawful in the United Kingdom: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Subject to licence and regulation. Embryo research raises medical, scientific, legal, social, philosophical, and ultimately conscience, moral and ethical issues. In the end each individual has to make his own value judgment, to be respected by all the rest of us.
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This paper reports on recent regulations and guidelines in the Federal Republic of Germany bearing on perinatal medical ethics, embryo research and trophoblast biopsy. Some of the regulations are defensive responses to new moral opportunities. In contrast, this paper calls for a more aggressive moral cost-benefit assessment of high technology medicine, which would include large-scale research on embryos prior to the fiftieth day post-menstruation.
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This review evaluates recent developments in the application as well as legalization of human embryo research. A number of European countries, including the United Kingdom and Spain, have recently enacted comprehensive legislation to regulate embryo research. Research reviewed here was conducted either with the aim to alleviate certain medical conditions or to improve the low success rates of assisted reproductive technology. Research was usually conducted on embryos that were considered unfit for immediate transfer or unsuitable for cryopreservation. Research projects were aimed at 1) studying the metabolism of the embryo, 2) promoting embryonic viability, 3) assisting fertilization in patients with fertilization disorders, and 4) determining gene disorders in embryos from couples at risk for transmitting genetic disease.