Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 - HFEA Coverage

HFEA Coverage

The act covers several areas:

  1. Any and all fertility treatment of humans involving the use of donated genetic material (eggs, sperm or embryos).
  2. The storage of human eggs, sperm and embryos.
  3. Research on early human embryos.
  4. The creation of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, or HFEA, which regulates assisted reproduction in the UK.

Within the act an embryo is defined as a live human embryo where fertilisation is complete, complete is defined as the appearance of a two cell zygote.

Read more about this topic:  Human Fertilisation And Embryology Act 1990