Human Fertilisation and Embryology

Part of Living Wage (Reporting) – in the House of Commons at 2:49 pm on 3 February 2015.

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Photo of Frank Dobson Frank Dobson Labour, Holborn and St Pancras 2:49, 3 February 2015

No, I shall not. Those people are taking risks, because if the treatment does not work, there will be those who will gloat—even, I am sad to say, Members in this Chamber. The parents are also willing to take the risks. Parents with children do not want this to happen again, and we have the opportunity to do something about it. The results are uncertain, but that is in the nature of both medicine and science. We cannot guarantee that it will work, but the people most involved in the matter and all the scientific advisory bodies in this country think that it will work, and we should take note of what they say.