Ltd. All rights reserved. We simply cannot stand by and allow humans to be copied. That would be breaking through an ethical barrier that goes far beyond even the barrier of the atomic bomb. Advertisers may one day be able to offer you babies with blue eyes and blond hair. Reflecting its shame over horrific Nazi experiments on humans, Germany has strict limits on genetic research and the public is fiercely opposed to genetic manipulation even of simple agricultural products.
Surrogate motherhood is outlawed.
Evelyne Gebhardt, a European member of parliament, said she would urge the European Commission to quickly start work on a directive that would make it a crime throughout the EU to tamper with the human embryo. Humans would be then bred for spare parts and then later carved up. That is the exactly the same thinking that drove the Nazis to their research on human breeding. President Clinton Tuesday banned federally-funded human cloning and asked private scientists voluntarily to enact a similar moratorium while government advisers review the ethically troublesome issue. The prospect of human cloning hit the headlines last month week scientists in Scotland introduced the world to Dolly, a lamb cloned from an adult sheep.