‘Ruling will not result in mass destruction of embryos’

A SUPREME Court ruling that frozen embryos do not have an automatic right to life will not lead to wholesale destruction of stored embryos, according to the fertility clinic at the centre of the ruling.

Dr David Walsh, of the Sims Clinic in Dublin, said they would continue to store the embryos until the Government enacts legislation to regulate assisted human reproduction (AHR).

This remains the clinic’s position despite a recent decision by the Irish Medical Council (IMC) to alter a guideline on fertility treatment dropping a prohibition on the deliberate destruction of embryos.