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  Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - Testing for gender-related illness 
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against tightening the provisions for when the sex of an embryo could be established, under a license from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.[1]
  
  When the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is passed, it would be possible to establish the sex of an embryo in a case where there is a particular risk that any resulting child will have or develop:[2]
  
  * a gender-related serious physical or mental disability,
  * a gender-related serious illness, or
  * any other gender-related serious medical condition
  
  The proposal would have changed these conditions to:[3]
  
  * a gender-related physical or mental disability which is life-threatening or severely impairs their quality of life,
  * a gender-related serious illness which is life-threatening or severely impairs their quality of life, or
  * any other gender-related serious medical condition which is life-threatening or severely impairs their quality of life
  
  but the original words were kept.
  
  * [1] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/acts1990/ukpga_19900037_en_5#sch2 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990], Schedule 2, OPSI
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmbills/070/08070.52-58.html#j111s Embryo testing], Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, Schedule 2, 3 1ZA(1)(c).
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-05-19a.80.0#g119.2 Mark Simmonds MP], House of Commons, 19 May 2008
  
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