Clause 1
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Ian Gibson (Norwich North, Labour)
I dread making this intervention, but whenever I see the word “zygote”, I always think that it is a single cell. I do not want to get into arguments meaning that a later process is rolled out of order because of some “Oxford English Dictionary” definition. Would the hon. Gentleman like to say where the two-cell zygote comes from? Two cells are never a zygote; one cell is a zygote. The hon. Gentleman was once a zygote; that was when he was a single cell with everything else to do in terms of multiplying and so on.