A PARLIAMENTARY committee in Australia, one of the powerhouses of stem cell
research, last week recommended a ban on creating embryos for research only and
a ban on human reproductive cloning.
But the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and
Constitutional Affairs won many researchers’ support by giving them the go-ahead
to extract stem cells from spare IVF embryos.
And its report also specifically states that the creation of cloned embryos
by nuclear transfer could be excluded from the ban on the creation of embryos,
although the committee has called for a three-year moratorium in the meantime.
That means…
