A sub-committee of the Institute has produced new guidelines for doctors on reproduction technology, which will outlaw any use of human embryos for research purposes in this country. The sub-committee has also recommended in favour of a number of recent reproduction techniques being used in this country, including the freezing of embryos and the use of donor sperm.
It has taken this sub-committee of the Institute of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians three years to come up with the new guidelines, which were accepted by the Institute in April. The nine-member committee, made up of some of the country's leading obstetricians, a barrister and lawyer, as well as an expert in Christian ethics, revised the guidelines for doctors in the light of the rapid development in reproduction technology in this country.
