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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

The noble Baroness's second example is where the noble Lord’s later amendments come into play. It is entirely one thing for somebody as an adult and in a position to choose to offer some part of themselves for a sibling or a close relative, but quite another for an organ to be removed from a two year-old, which was the example she mentioned, for that purpose. A two year-old clearly is not in a position to give consent or to judge the risks involved. That would be the same whether or not there had been the intention to create this child so that it could do that. I have already spoken about the intention to create and I have said that I am not convinced by the turning upside down by the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, of the argument of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and, by implication, of my argument. The noble Baroness’s second point runs straight into the later set of amendments which would make such removal of organs from a child for another’s good a criminal offence.