On matters of life and death, the debate is never over - The Sunday Telegraph 25th May 2008

This life is full of disappointments, but last week was quite something. After two days' debate in the Commons, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill got its second reading. Every measure I'd hoped to see struck down got through, and every amendment I'd hoped to see passed got struck down. Some issues mattered more than others. I'm all in favour of children having fathers or, at least, father-figures, but the requirement that would-be IVF parents should have to demonstrate to the satisfaction of a fertility clinic functionary that there would be some sort of fatherly presence in their children's lives seemed more a matter of form-filling than substance - though fair play to Iain Duncan Smith for making an issue of it. That got nowhere.

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