BACKGROUND No two countries have adopted identical regulatory measures on cloning. Understanding the complexity of these regulatory variations is essential. It highlights the challenges associated with the regulation of a controversial and rapidly evolving area of science and sheds light on a regulatory framework that can accommodate this reality. METHODS Using the most reliable information a...

International efforts are now growing to try to outlaw one of the most controversial possibilities of recent reproductive research: cloning humans. Spurring these moves last month were the outspoken plans of Italian fertility specialist, Severino Antinori and his colleague Panayiotis Zavos, who announced at a meeting in Washington that they were pushing ahead with experiments on human cloning a...

The possibility of human reproductive cloning has led some bioethicists to suggest that potentiality-based arguments for fetal moral status become untenable, as such arguments would be committed to making the implausible claim that any adult somatic cell is itself a potential person. In this article I defend potentiality-based arguments for fetal moral status against such a reductio. Starting f...