All in the family: a child welfare perspective on human reproductive cloning.

single of the chief philosophical point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds raised by human cloning is the question of in what manner we should respond to the interests of nation not yet in existence. (1)

Introduction

For centuries a woman who bore a child was clearly the birth mother of that child: mater est quam gestatio demonstrat. (2) However, this relationship is no longer unequivocal. The possibility of embryon transfer or egg donation separates biological motherhood into genetic and gestational constitutings With the announcement in 1997 of the live birth of the first clon adult mammal using differentiated bodily