QUESTION: When is a human embryo not a human embryo? ANSWER: When it’s a
clone.
That was the memorable verdict of an English judge who last week became the
first person ever to rule on the legal status of human clones
(see “No clones please”).
Superficially, the ruling is easy to ridicule. If a cloned human embryo is not a
human embryo, then is Dolly the sheep not a sheep? And if a cloned human baby is
ever created, what type of organism will it be in the eyes of the law? In fact,
the judge has done us…
