Cover Story: PM leads Australia down the slippery slope*

The Prime Minister’s decision, taken in conjunction with State Premiers, to permit human embryo experimentation while banning human cloning, takes Australia down the slippery slope by permitting destructive experimentation on the most defenceless of human beings.It is instructive to look at the history of government attempts to regulate the medical scientists over the past 20 years or so. The issue arose in the 1970s, as doctors attempted to address the problem of infertility arising from blocke…

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