All Party Pro Life

The All Party Pro-Life Group in Parliament regards the experimentation on human embryos and their artificial creation for the sake of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) as inconsistent with the value that should be placed on human beings in the earliest stages of their development. To create human life solely or partly motivated by a desire for medical or cosmetic experimentation undermines the value of the dignity of human persons. Whilst enabling the artificial creation of embryos for IVF inevitably involves the destruction of those embryos left unused.

The Group gently seeks to (re)establish the rational principle that human personhood begins once fertilisation is complete, commonly known as the point of conception. It is reasonable to point out that to suggest that personhood begins at any later point is ultimately inconsistent with the principle that all human lives, regardless of their physical development, are of equal worth.