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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008

Review of the 1990 Act

4.The provisions of the 1990 Act were enacted after consideration of the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, chaired by Dame (now Baroness) Mary Warnock. This report was published in July 1984 and considered the social, ethical and legal implications of developments in the field of human reproduction, most notably the birth in 1978 of the first child conceived through IVF.

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