Clause 46
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]
9:00 am
Mark Simmonds (Shadow Minister, Health; Boston and Skegness, Conservative)
I have one quick question. The clause deals with civil partnerships and it mirrors clause 39, which deals with heterosexual partnerships and the use of a man’s sperm after his death. My understanding of clause 46 is that a woman who was not in a civil partnership—and might therefore not be in an intimate relationship with a women receiving treatment—who has no genetic link to the child, and who is also dead, can be named on the birth certificate as the second parent. Is the Minister comfortable with that?