But now we don’t have to wait for the future. This is exactly what opponents of experiments on human embryos have feared will come way in the future – the experimental use of cloned fetuses implanted in the womb. All that is forbidden is their development “into a new human individual” after birth. It permits experiments that involve the cloning of human embryos, and their implantation in the womb, and their growth all the way through pregnancy.

Because it doesn’t just “permit human stem cell research in New Jersey,” as the synopsis says. Indeed, it will forever be cited in the history books as the Brave New World (New Jersey) Act. They have been banned in Australia, and Canada is on the verge of banning them.īut the bill goes even further. Its supporters present it as an innocuous and forward-looking bill opposed by “pro-life extremists.” But the experiments it will make into public policy in NJ are illegal in nations around the world that are hardly in the hands of conservative Republicans – such as Germany, France, and Norway. The bill will put New Jersey on the map in the same way that the Dutch parliament made their nation the world’s euthanasia capital. Governor McGreevey of New Jersey made the most important decision of his political career on Sunday, when he decided to go through with his publicly stated intention and signed the worst bioethics bill in the world – forced through the NJ legislature by the slimmest of margins by the heavyweight lobbying of biotech interests and their friends.

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