§ Lord Alton of Liverpoolasked Her Majesty's Government:
What limitations will be placed on the extraction of organs, bone marrow, cells or other tissue from a designed baby; and what protection will be provided 57WA against the imposition of significant pain upon the designed baby during medical procedures to extract organs, bone marrow, cells or other tissue. [HL3070]
§ Lord Hunt of Kings HeathAll children who are unable to give informed consent to medical procedures, no matter what the circumstances of their conception, have considerable protection in law to safeguard their best interests.
In any lawful clinical intervention likely to involve pain, practitioners will need to consider what action to take, including the provision of suitable analgesia or sedation.
The Government are currently reviewing the law on the removal, retention and use of human organs and tissue from both living people and those who have died. A report will be published shortly for consultation.