Submissions
CMF regularly makes submissions to Government and other consultations on issues of ethical importance. All of our submissions are accessible here.
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Protection Of Life During Pregnancy (Heads Of) Bill 2013 - 22/5/2013
The Irish Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children requested written submissions from interested individuals and groups in respect of its consideration of the Outline Heads of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013. This draft Bill aims to 'clarify' the law in Ireland in cases of threatened suicide or when the mother's life is...
Submission to a Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability - 11/3/2013
A cross party Parliamentary Inquiry has been set up to review the law on abortion for disability, with a particular focus on whether it is discriminatory or not. The Inquiry is also reviewing whether the current law on abortion on the grounds of disability should be amended or developed and if information and guidance provided to families...
Submission to a Scottish Parliament Inquiry into teenage pregnancy - 5/2/2013
This CMF submission is a response to a Scottish Parliament inquiry which was set up to review policy at a national and local to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. The inquiry asked for views on the barriers and challenges to reducing the levels of teenage pregnancy and if there are specific approaches to reducing teenage pregnancy that are not...
Welsh Government Draft Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill - 18/1/2013
This final public consultation on organ donation by the Welsh Assembly Health and Social Care Committee concerns a draft bill that will introduce presumed consent for organ donation for the first time. A change in Welsh law will affect the rest of the UK in time and we have serious concerns. Read our short response for more information…
Faith Matters - the contribution of faith to health and healthcare in the post 2015 agenda - 10/1/2013
This paper is submitted by the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) (1), a network of 4,000 doctors and 800 medical students in the UK. We have a strong interest in global health, with over 170 of our members currently living and working in low income countries and hundreds more who are involved in regular short-term visits. Through the...
Submission to the HFEA Review of scientific methods to avoid mitochondrial disease - 7 December 2012 - 30/11/2012
The UK government regulator for embryo research, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is consulting on new proposals to allow scientists to create children with three, or even four, parents through genetic engineering. This would involve altering the germ line, of babies, making changes that would be passed down to all future...
Organ Donation in Wales: A letter to the Shadow Minister for Health - 22/11/2012
In an effort to improve organ donation rates, the Welsh Government intends to introduce a system of presumed, or deemed, consent to Wales. When a person dies without having expressed a wish one way or the other about whether or not to donate their organs, the state will presume that consent has been given by default. However it is far from clear...
Submission to a cross-party parliamentary inquiry into unwanted pregnancy - 28/9/2012
This CMF submission is a response to a cross-party inquiry, chaired by Amber Rudd MP, set up to explore and understand the underlying factors behind unwanted pregnancies in the UK, with the intention of making a series of recommendations to the Government to reduce the level of unwanted pregnancies. The inquiry asked for views on unwanted...
Submission to the Dept of Health on the abolition of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority - 28/9/2012
This submission from CMF raises concerns with the Dept of Health proposal to transfer functions from the HFEA and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) to the Care Quality Commission, except for HFEA functions relating to research that will transfer to the HRA, and to then abolish both the HFEA and HTA. Read full submission here.
Submission to the Welsh Government Draft Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill - 10/9/2012
The Welsh Government consulted on its draft Bill to introduce a system of 'presumed consent' for organ donation. This Bill will permit doctors to remove organs and tissue from any dead patient, unless they had specifically registered a formal objection to it. Families of the deceased will still have an important role to play in the process however...
