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Submission from CMF to the Science and Technology Committee in response to the Review of Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law (26/05/2004)
Introduction Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is interdenominational and has over 4,500 members throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland who are Christian doctors and who desire their professional and personal lives...
Natallie Evans, 31, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, who had her ovaries removed after being diagnosed with cancer, previously had six embryos created and frozen, before breaking up with her boyfriend Howard Johnston. Lorraine Hadley, 38, from Baswich, Staffordshire, who had a 17-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, had two embryos previously...
Submission from CMF to the HFEA in response to 'Sex Selection: Choice and Responsibility in Human Reproduction' (22/01/2003)
Introduction Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is interdenominational and has as members over 4,500 doctors throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland who are Christians and who desire their professional and personal...
CMF calls for ban on sex selection (22/01/2003)
CMF has called for a total ban on sex selection in the UK, in its formal submission to a consultation document, 'Sex Selection: choice and responsibility in human reproduction', from...
A lesbian couple from Hollywood recently adopted twin girls in a transatlantic surrogacy deal involving six other adults. An Italian businessman and his Portuguese wife living in France had commissioned a British surrogate, Claire Austin, to have a baby on their behalf. A Greek doctor in Athens implanted the embryos,...
The desire to choose the sex of your offspring isn't a new phenomenon. Various methods have been employed over the centuries, primarily to ensure a son and heir, with most founded more on superstition than fact. The difference now is that the application of science enables couples to make a...
'New advance a step in the right direction... but still open to abuse,' says CMF (11/10/2002)
Helen Perry has become the first woman in Britain to have a baby using an egg that was frozen, due to a new anti-freeze method that increases egg survival rates....
CMF backs MPs' condemnation of HFEA decision on designer babies (18/07/2002)
The Christian Medical Fellowship today backed MPs' verdict condemning the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee's report, published today, says the...
HFEA's designer baby precedent unethical and dangerous (13/12/2001)
CMF has responded to the HFEA's decision to allow IVF technology to produce tissue matched donors for the treatment of children with severe inherited disorders by saying the precedent is...
Personal Submission from the General Secretary of CMF to the HFEA and the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing on 'Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)' (10/11/1999)
This is a personal submission from Peter Saunders MBChB FRACS, General Secretary of CMF Introduction This is a personal submission from Mr Peter Saunders MBChB FRACS. I am a qualified...
