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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

I am all in support of the village, which of course consists of members of both sexes. Further research has been done by the child psychiatrist Professor Sturge on the effect on children of being brought up in same-sex families and there is much more research out there that I hope your Lordships will consider. More amendments are to come and I do not wish to take up your Lordships’ attention for too long. There is, for instance, an amendment on birth certificates. For now, having made my points—and having convinced many, if not all, that we should not in the interests of children tamper with the existing law—I am content not to press the amendment to a vote. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.