One of the most important and disputed pieces of recent legislation is being debated in the House of Commons. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is hugely complex, reflecting the newest developments in embryology but some of the oldest questions, such as “when does human life begin?” and “does every child need a father?”. The different faith organisations in this country all have concerns about this bill, but also disagree among themselves. Dr Lee Rayfield, Anglican Bishop of Swindon and immunologist, and Dr Usama Hasan, an Imam who is also a scientist, talked to Sunday.
Listen to it all (a little over seven and one half minutes).
So the consensus seems to be (among these Christian and Islamic Britishers) that almost anything you want to do with or to an embryo before it’s 14 days old is okey-dokey. The other idea was that life begins with brain waves (6 weeks), the inverse of the definition of a brain-dead comatose person.
It would be nice to have a transcript of this.
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