Within days, Federal Parliament will commence debate on the contentious Research Involving Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2002, which will set the ethical and medical ground rules for research on human subjects for years to come.While many of the issues of principle – in particular destructive research on human embryos, and the harvesting of embryonic stem cells (which destroys the embryos) – have been discussed previously in these columns, new issues arise which highlight the mor…
