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SUMMARY:Playing God: who should regulate reproductive medicine? - Baroness
  Deech\, Chair of the Bar Standards Board
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CONTACT:Paul Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Politics have played a more significant part in the regulation
  of reproductive medicine than is commonly recognised. Starting with the m
 edia and parliamentary reaction to the birth of Louise Brown in 1978\, to 
 the contemporary parliamentarians' struggle to keep the Human Fertilisatio
 n and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as an integrated body\, legislators\, cl
 inicians\, religious authorities and journalists have competed to seize di
 rection of the way in which this law and regulation develops.\n\nFortunate
 ly\, stem cell work in this country was legalised in 2001\, in part becaus
 e of the confidence in regulation generated by the existence of the HFEA a
 nd in part because of the thoroughness and secular nature of the debate. T
 his has not been the case in the USA\, even though President Obama has bee
 n slightly more accommodating than Presidents Bush and Clinton. Britain re
 mains a leading nation in stem cell and reproductive medicine\, but this p
 osition is threatened by misguided attempts to cut expenditure on quangos.
  Rearranging the regulatory body will not in fact save money but risks the
  accountability and security of this field.\n\nBooking is essential as pla
 ces are limited - <a href="http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/madingleylectures">boo
 k online via the ICE website</a>.
LOCATION:Institute of Continuing Education\, Madingley Hall
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