ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the interpretations of the law rather than the ethical issues involved; issues such as autonomy in reproductive choice, the commodification of the donor child and its welfare versus the welfare of the family as a whole. One might question the motives of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, which hampered the potential treatment of a sick child over a period of two and a half years, in trying to pick holes in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). On 28 April 2005 the House of Lords dismissed the appeal of Quintavalle (on behalf of Comment on Reproductive Ethics) vHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. This brought to an end the long drawn out legal battle as to whether it was permissible under the HFEA to allow the tissue typing of an embryo to detect whether it would be suitable as a tissue donor for a sick sibling.
