The Bonfire of the Regulators: the HFEA an unjustified death?
The Government has confirmed that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to be abolished with a number of its functions transferred to other bodies as part of the 'bonfire of the quangos'. This article explores these proposals and questions whether such wide-scale reform is an appropriate approach to the regulating of what remains such an ethically controversial area.
Birmingham Law School.
Jean
J
McHale
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