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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, always asks acute questions. The objection is the deliberate creation of a second child for the purpose of being primarily an organ donor. That is to diminish the nature and the purpose of the second child by essentially producing it and creating it for this purpose. That is the objection. Incidentally, the objection is not about whether the tissue comes from an embryo or a more fully developed child. The issue is that the child is being treated as an instrument for the purposes of the parents and the other child and is not being treated for itself. If a child was a perfect tissue match, I appreciate that it would be a matter for the parents and, if the child was old enough, for the child itself to decide on what was to be done. But that is quite different from deliberately setting out to produce a child for the purposes of being an organ donor.