Stem cell research, in Parliament

Late autumn and early winter have seen a flurry of Parliamentary activity about the law and ethics of embryonic stem cell research. This follows publication of the Chief Medical Officer's Expert Group's report on the subject (see Bulletin 160), the first recommendation of which was that such research should be permitted by means of a regulation under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The following records some of the episodes in that activity with extracts from some of the speeches made.