It may be the less well-off nations of the Southern hemisphere who hold accountable the men and women who thought the intellectual and technological seduction of reproductive cloning was just too tantalizing to resist. There is another way. The HFEA, along with other world leaders in biotechnology, could forego human reproductive cloning. Wisdom could provide the necessary prescience to turn the momentum another direction. Instead of preying upon unborn human embryos, biotechnology, or more properly, biotechnologists, could acknowledge the dignity of human beings and refuse to cannibalize those who are least able to defend themselves.
Technology has an uncanny way of biting back.
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