Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Dr Kirsty Horsey is a lecturer in law at the University of Kent. She is reproduction editor of BioNews, a web and email based service of news, information and comment on assisted reproduction and human genetics.Hazel Biggs is Professor of Medical Law at Lancaster University. Previously she was Director of Medical Law at the University of Kent. Her work encompasses most areas of medical law with a particular emphasis on autonomy, choice and informed decision-making. She is an editor for Medical Law Review and is affiliated to the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) at Lancaster University.

• 1. The Quest for a Perfect Child: How Far Should the Law Intervene? 2. Conceptions of Welfare 3. Rethinking the Pre-conception Welfare Principle 4. Paying Gamete Donors Does not Wrong the Future Child 5. Unforeseen Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Ethical and Legal Issues 6. Equality of Access to NHS-funded IVF Treatment in England and Wales 7. Parenting Genetically Unrelated Children: A Comparison of Embryo Donation and Adoption 8. Unconsidered Inconsistencies: Parenthood and Assisted Conception 9. Beyond Genetic and Gestational Dualities: Surrogacy Agreements, Legal Parenthood and Choice in Family Formation 10. Beyond Health and Disability: Rethinking the ‘Foetal Abnormality’ Ground in Abortion Law 11. The Abortion Debate Today

"[Human Fertilisation and Embryology does] a wonderfuljob of encouraging readers to think critically about regulatory issuesaround human reproductive science, and to remember the very subjectivenature of ‘‘the perfect child’’" - Julie McCandless, Feminist Legal Studies, vol. 15 no. 3 (2007)