Does anyone know history of law on human cloneing / stem cell (embryo) research in AUS?
The rapid development of assisted reproductive technology (ART) coupled with other developments in biotechnology and medical research in the 1990s raised significant ethical issues, such as what forms of human reproduction would be acceptable and what uses of human embryos for research should be permitted. In response to these issues, the Commonwealth Government passed the Prohibition on Human Cloning Act 2002 (Cth) (the PHC Act) and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 (Cth) (the RIHE Act) to provide a national framework for regulation in this area. The two Acts prohibited a number of reproductive practices, including human cloning and the creation of human embryos (except for the purposes of assisting pregnancy). These prohibitions extended to therapeutic cloning, and made certain practices in relation to therapeutic cloning criminal offences. Therapeutic cloning includes the process of transferring the nucleus of a human cell into an egg cell whose nucleus has been removed
