Richard Egan explains why the battle over human embryo experimentation and cloning is so important, and where it will go from here.The Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 will come into effect this year, permitting, under licence from a Commonwealth committee, destructive research on human embryos judged to be “excess” to the requirements of women undergoing IVF.Research on human embryos is intimately linked to IVF and related reproductive technologies. Louise Brown was, in 1979, the first…
