Submissions

CMF regularly makes submissions to Government and other consultations on issues of ethical importance. All of our submissions are accessible here.

Nuffield Council on Bioethics – Genome Editing (02/02/2016)

The Council has invited written submissions of evidence to inform its examination of ethical issues arising in relation to genome editing, an emerging family of biological techniques for making precise...

Health Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament (02/02/2016)

- Petition of Hon Maryan Street and 8,974 others:That the House of Representatives investigate fully public attitudes towards the introduction of legislation which would permit medically-assisted dying in the event...

UK National Screening Committee Consultation on Screening for cfDNA in pregnancy (29/10/2015)

CMF has responded to the UK National Screening Committee Consultation. Information about the consultation can be found here. The UK National Screening Committee is currently consulting on a new screening...

Draft Transplantation (Authorisation of Removal of Organs etc.) (Scotland) Bill (13/10/2015)

A Member's Bill introduced by Anne McTaggart MSP on 1 June 2015 proposes to amend the law in Scotland on organ donation by providing for decisions to be made on...

NICE - care of the dying adult (06/10/2015)

The guidance covers the clinical care of adults who are in the last few days of life, in any NHS care setting. It includes how to recognise when people are...

Government Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill – Prevent Duty Guidance (30/01/2015)

We affirm the importance of free speech on campus, and recognise the potential risk of misuse of higher education institutions as platforms for drawing people into terrorism. However we are...

Department of Justice, Northern Ireland - consultation on amending the criminal law on abortion (16/01/2015)

The Northern Ireland Department of Justice seeks a change in the law that would permit abortion in cases where the unborn baby has a 'lethal fetal abnormality'. Further, the Department...

Evidence to the House of Lords' Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee on regulations to permit mitochondrial donation (06/01/2015)

Regulations to permit mitochondrial donation to prevent the transmission of serious mitochondrial disease from mother to child have been published by the Public Health Secretary. The regulations raise a number...

GMC Fitness to Practise Consultation (26/11/2014)

Below is CMF's response to the GMC's public consultation on changes to sanctionsguidance and on the role of apologies and warnings. The original GMC consultation page can be viewed here....

Public Consultation by The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life (18/11/2014)

With the rise of secular humanism and, in particular, the new atheism, there is in British society generally a loss of historically held belief in the existence of a transcendent...