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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

This point about passion is important, but would the noble Lord not agree that on this authority or some future authority that might be considering, say, licences to do with interspecies embryos, it might be quite useful to that authority’s deliberations to have someone who is not passionate and who would say, ““I recall the noble Lord, Lord Darzi, in his speech during the last group of amendments saying that a lot a very wise scientists are unable to define what one of these things is, so shouldn’t we pause for a moment or two before we decide to license it or not””? That has nothing to do with passion or being anti-science; it is to do with the small, still voice of reason.