In early February, the Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, announced that Australia’s federal government intends to introduce legalisation to permit the procedure called “mitochondrial replacement”. It says it will do this in a “staged and closely monitored” way. The Government intends to relax two laws — the Prohibition on Human Cloning for Reproduction Act and […]

Author Archives: Bernadette Tobin
Bernadette Tobin is Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics, a joint centre of St Vincents & Mater Sydney and Australia Catholic University, in Sydney.