Abstract
Since the enactment of the Human Fertility and Embryology Act 1990, Fertility Clinics have been obliged to work within the HFEA guidelines to comply with the requirements of their licences. However the recent media focus on certain aspects of assisted conception calls into question the degree of subjective interpretation that is applied by individual clinics with regard to the guidelines. This paper is the result of an empirical study examining how clinics interpret the guidelines, and will examine the question of whether the existing guidelines should be tightened to remove some of the inherent ambiguities.
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