the use and storage of stem cells and cord Blood: frenchand english law comparative approach

Abstract

Becoming parents is one of the greatest wishes of a lot of couples. When their dreamscome true, prior to the birth of the child, parents have to face several points: thechoice of the name, place of delivery, breast or bottle feeding, etc. recently, they haveto face the issues of cord blood stem cells. researchers and cord blood banks are alsointerested in those cells. in many countries a lot of advertising is made aroundumbilical cord blood stem cells. in France as in England, the use and preservation ofcord blood are regulated by the legislators without necessarily having the sameapproach The objective of this paper is to present English and French law approaches’ on cordblood stem cells.