{"id":193,"date":"2005-04-30T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T09:51:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-30T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T09:51:02","slug":"quintavalle-v-human-fertilisation-and-embryology-authority-2005-hl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Quintavalle v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2005] HL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[The creation of so-called &#8220;designer babies&#8221; to treat siblings with genetic disorders is lawful]<br \/><\/strong>D, the HFEA issued a licence to parents of six-year old boy suffering from a rare and potentially fatal blood disorder (beta thalassaemia] to enable them to &#8216;create&#8217; a sibling whose tissue would match&nbsp;and offer hope of treatment. <br \/>C, Josephine Quintavalle a campaigner opposed such interference, claimed the whole concept of designer babies was against the law. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: Tissue typing to create babies to help siblings could be authorised by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which issues a licence to create or keep an embryo. <\/p>\n<p><strong>C lost<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The creation of so-called &#8220;designer babies&#8221; to treat siblings with genetic disorders is lawful]D, the HFEA issued a licence to parents of six-year old boy suffering from a rare and potentially fatal blood disorder (beta thalassaemia] to enable them to &#8216;create&#8217; a sibling whose tissue would match&nbsp;and offer hope of treatment. C, Josephine Quintavalle a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}