A bill proposing the establishment of a committee to assess the sentience of unborn babies and embryos should afford them rights equivalent to those enjoyed by animal foetuses, according to a Conservative peer.
On Friday the House of Lords received a second reading of Tory peer Lord Moylan’s proposals for a bill to “make provision for a Foetal Sentience Committee to review current understanding of the sentience of the human foetus and to inform policy-making.”
