NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Opening door to embryo experimentation*

Practices that grossly violate human dignity will become legal if an expected private member’s bill to accept key findings of the Lockhart Inquiry is accepted by Federal Parliament. Pat Byrne reports on the key issues.Just four years ago, Australia’s federal and state parliaments voted to ban human cloning and restrict access to human embryos for scientific research. In a radical about-turn, the Lockhart Inquiry has recently recommended legalising human cloning, the cloning of animal-human hybri…

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