Apparently Gordon Brown’s government has proposed a piece of legislation that would permit the development of embryos created by using cow eggs and human cells for scientific experimentation. There is a lively argument about the ethics, led on one side by an English Cardinal who perceives the legislation as an attack on human rights and on the other by academics who say that we can no longer make a scientific claim that life begins at conception and that the embryos in question are not “alive” in the sense that they cannot develop into anything.

Jessica