Friday, April 13, 2007

Hard cases make bad law.

However much sympathy one may have for the lady who has finally lost her legal battle to use frozen fertilised embryos created by her and her (now ex-)boyfriend in an attempt to become pregnant, following his withdrawing consent to such use, the fact is that the law is clear that the consent of both parties is required, and that they both were well aware of what the law was when the embryos were initially fertilised. I'm afraid that the Diane Blood case back in the '90s started us on a slippery slope where clear law can be challenged on purely emotional grounds. Fight for a change in the law by all means, but otherwise, like the rest of us, you have to accept it as it is.

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