HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - PREAMBLE
HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - PREAMBLE
Preamble
Whereas:
A. In enacting this
legislation Parliament is seeking to give help and encouragement to those
eligible persons who wish to be parents.
B. Parliament
considers that the primary purpose and only justification for the creation of
a human embryo in vitro is to assist persons who are unable to conceive
children naturally due to medical reasons or whose children are otherwise
likely to be affected by a genetic abnormality or a disease, to have children,
and this legislation should respect the life created by this process.
C. Although Parliament
recognises that research has enabled the development of current procedures and
that certain research procedures and other uses upon a human embryo may be
licit, it does not approve the creation of a human embryo for a purpose other
than the implantation in the body of a woman.
[Preamble amended: No. 3 of 2002 s. 72; No. 17 of
2004 s. 4.]
The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: