Bill C-13 , An Act respecting assisted human reproduction, proposes to regulate various elements of the creation of novel beings. Though the bill is directed primarily at the techniques and processes of human infertility intervention, it is concerned secondarily with some aspects of human embryo experimentation. The bill thus deals with the circumstances under which chimeraand hybrid-making wou...

BACKGROUND This article explores the reasons in favour of revising and extending the current 14-day statutory limit to maintaining human embryos in culture. This limit is enshrined in law in over a dozen countries, including the United Kingdom. In two recently published studies (2016), scientists have shown that embryos can be sustained in vitro for about 13 days after fertilisation. Positive r...

The most publicly justifiable application of human cloning, if there is one at all, is to provide self-compatible cells or tissues for medical use, especially transplantation. Some have argued that this raises no new ethical issues above those raised by any form of embryo experimentation. I argue that this research is less morally problematic than other embryo research. Indeed, it is not merely...