ABSTRACT
Section 156 provides that no person shall, for the purposes of providing fertility services for any woman, use female germ cells taken or derived from an embryo or a foetus, or use embryos created by using such cells. Although not technically feasible at present, it has been predicted that within a decade it will be possible to use eggs obtained from the foetuses of aborted baby girls which, when fertilised in a test tube, may then be inserted into women wishing to become pregnant. According to Wasik and Taylor (1995) ‘to allow this procedure would clearly have very serious consequences for the child, since it would at some point have to be explained to it that its mother had not been allowed to be born’.
