Vehement Protests Against Artificial Insemination
• EeCeived Thursday,. 8.30 p.m. LONDON, March 17. The Daily Telegraph says them were vehement protests from peers of all patries,. including the President of - the Divorce. Court (Lord Merriman) whfen the Government in the Lords rejected :a powerful detnand for' a Royal commission to inyest'iagte the growing practice of artiiicial insemination as a means of parentliood. When Lord-Chorley for the Government said sueh a commission shouid await the report of the Royal Commission on F-ertility there was sueh an nproar that Yiseount Addison intervened to assure members that the Government intended to give "full and earliest eonsiderat'ion,, to all the suggestions that had been put forward. Lord . Merriman said the - Medieal TJnipn had said it was prepared to limit„ the numbers of inseminations from oue donor at one time to 100, but it conld Ibe extended to 200. That nreant that u donor might be siring 100 boys and girls at oue time. 'What was going to happen when half-brothers and halfsisters fell in love 2.0 years laterl
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 March 1949, Page 5
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