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The Prohibition of Sex Selection for Social Reasons in the United Kingdom: Public Opinion Trumps Reproductive Liberty?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

PETER HERISSONE-KELLY
Affiliation:
Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

Extract

From 2002 to 2003, the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) carried out a review of the available methods of sex selection, the central aims of which were, in the words of the subsequent report:I gratefully acknowledge the assistance offered by Dr. Peter Mills of the HFEA in helping me to understand the sometimes complex regulatory framework surrounding the practice of sex selection in the United Kingdom.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: INTERNATIONAL VOICES 2006
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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