The Concentrate Questions and Answers series offers the best preparation for tackling exam and assignment questions. Each book includes key debates, typical questions, diagram answer plans, suggested answers, author commentary, and tips to gain extra marks. This chapter focuses on legal parenthood and parental responsibility and contains two essay questions and two problem questions. The topics covered in this chapter are: presumptions of paternity and paternity tests; legal parenthood in assisted reproduction situations; the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008; legal parenthood in surrogacy situations; and parental responsibility. The topics covered in this chapter are complex as they raise legal, ethical, and moral issues.
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8. Parenthood and Parental Responsibility
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6. Assisted reproduction
This chapter deals with the statutory provisions governing assisted reproduction, with particular reference to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (as amended) and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. It also explores the issue of access to services and whether these are available on the National Health Service, together with the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use and storage of gametes and embryos, surrogacy arrangements, and screening of embryos. Relevant cases are considered, where appropriate.
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16. Assisted Reproduction
A. M. Farrell and E. S. Dove
This chapter discusses ethical and legal aspects of control of assisted reproduction in the UK. It begins with the regulation of assisted reproduction, including the creation, use, and disposal of gametes and embryos. Access to assisted reproduction technologies is examined, looking at artificial insemination and gamete donation more broadly. The chapter then goes on to consider the legal position of surrogacy and commercial surrogacy in particular, as well as the relationship between assisted reproduction and parenthood. Posthumous parenthood and also adoption are looked at, and the chapter then concludes by looking at embryo research and the future of assisted reproduction.
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9. Becoming a Legal Parent and the Consequences of Legal Parenthood
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter examines how the status of ‘legal parenthood’ is acquired under English law. It considers different concepts of parenthood and possible approaches to determining legal parenthood; the current legal framework for identifying a child’s legal parents where a child is conceived through natural procreation; and the legal and social challenges raised by the use of assisted reproduction techniques and surrogacy.
