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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

The noble Lord knows far more about this than I do, but, with the greatest respect, he has taken rather a strange example. I would not for one moment have regarded colour blindness as a serious illness. It may damage the person’s enjoyment of life in a number of ways, but it is not serious. I hear what he says and I will listen to any future argument on this, but I thought that we were justified in widening the definition. I think that we saw the definition of ““life-threatening”” illness as much narrower than the slightly broader definition of ““serious”” illness. That was the weight of the evidence from the two witnesses whose names I have mentioned.