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DOES AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION PERMIT THE CLONING OF EARLY HUMAN EMBRYOS IN THE MANNER UNDERTAKEN BY ACT?

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DOES AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION PERMIT THE CLONING OF EARLY HUMAN EMBRYOS IN THE MANNER UNDERTAKEN BY ACT?

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In basic terms, ACT s research consisted of injecting eggs donated by women specifically for ACT s research, with cells (fibroblast and ovarian cells) from individuals to be cloned. Both nuclear cell transfer and parthenogenesis techniques were used to create embryos. The most successful outcome as reported by ACT was that from the 71 injected eggs, one of these progressed to form a 6 cell embryo before it stopped any further development.31 Cloning Whether Australian legislation would permit the cloning activities of ACT may be answered as follows: • Commonwealth The prohibition on cloning under the Gene Technology Act does not govern ACT s research because the relevant prohibition applies to the cloning of a whole human being . Cloning a human embryo as reported by ACT, while an essential step in the process is not the cloning of a whole human being , and hence not governed at the Commonwealth level. • Victoria Possibly – ACT undertook to clone embryos using nuclear cell transfer, inc

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