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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I rather hesitate to intervene in support of the amendment in view of the expertise so brilliantly expressed by my noble friends, both professional and political. I speak from my own experience as a former GP, as well as on behalf of my colleagues and the British Medical Association, to back my noble friend in his reasoning that infertility is a pathological condition. It is not merely a problem that some people have, which is their own responsibility to look after. It is a serious failing of the National Health Service that infertile couples have to turn to the private sector, with all the problems my noble friend has described. The amendment is overdue and we should support it.