Test-tube babies will continue
NZPA-Reuter London The ethical committee of the British Medical Association yesterday brushed aside suggestions that the creation of test-tube babies be halted. The committee’s chairman, Dr Michael Thomas, has called for a moratorium to allow more debate on the legal and moral issues involved. But a full meeting of the committee yesterday did not even raise the question of calling a halt to the test-tube baby programme. It proposed that a special working group be set up to gather more evidence about the latest developments. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister (Mrs Margaret Thatcher) announced in
Parliament that the Government was canvassing medical experts for their views on the ethics of test-tube babies. B.M.A. officials say privately that it is probably too late to stop a programme which has already resulted in 14 births in Britain, with at least 100 more expected this year. Concern centres around the possible misuse of frozen egg banks, which are proposed by some doctors, and the possible development of human cloning to produce several genetically identical offspring. The B.M.A. ethical committee was apparently satisfied that such developments are a long way ofi.
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