Table 1.

Additional excerpts from Rahui Katene's speech on the third reading of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (Storage) Amendment Bill [Hansard NZ (Debates) 2010c: 14403].

The ‘tikanga [customary practices] for destroying an embryo might take into account….’

i) ‘The movement from living to not living’

ii) ‘The preparation for burial, cremation etc.’

iii) ‘The actual burial’

iv) ‘The entry into the portals of the world of being and light’

The ‘tikanga [customary practices] of gifting’; for when whānau [family] hand over their embryos and gametes…’

i) ‘The sharing of whakapapa [genealogy]’

ii) ‘The whakatau [or] settling process into the storage facility’