Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Manufacturing) Share this | Hansard source

I think it's very important to note that current research licences under the NHMRC are reported on very regularly to this place and that is a very, very robust process. It is of great concern to me that we would be inserting new processes for oversight when it comes to embryo research that deviates from the robust processes we already have, because that is when mistakes and errors happen. There is no reason for this legislation to be amended so that embryos in this research area are treated any differently from the myriad IVF research that already takes place and is regulated under the NHMRC.