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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I am sorry to say that I am not as familiar as I clearly should be with the definition there, but there are legal definitions of ““best interests””. In my view, looking back at decisions made in the past, it is very unlikely that a court would give permission for a major organ to be removed from a small child. At least that was the case in the past; the Human Tissue Act is new. In the discussion of a person being born as a means to an end or treating anyone as a means to an end, the most egregious example of that was the Diane Blood case where sperm was taken from a dying and then a dead man. There are provisions in this Bill which would continue to prevent any such thing, but that is the area to be careful of.