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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
5:30 pm
Mark Simmonds (Shadow Minister, Health; Boston and Skegness, Conservative)
I have one question about clause 38 and how it will operate in practice. If a donor-conceived child is implanted in a woman and both the parents consent but are unmarried, and if during gestation the mother marries a different man, the husband under common law becomes the father. That is right. What happens if the woman who has had the embryo implanted enters a civil partnership? Does the new civil partner become the parent post-embryo transfer?