UK’s new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
May 23rd, 2008 by Holly Fox
One of my new favorite blogs is Slate.com’s Human Nature. William Saletan seems to blog about something family policy-related every other day, and his analysis is usually both thorough and a bit surprising. On Tuesday I blogged about his post on delaying motherhood and cousin marriage. Today he has a great post detailing the different facets of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
which will influence how governments around the world regulate family and reproductive issues in the next century.
Saletan includes a rundown of all the major votes and then goes on to explain their significance.
In my view, the rise of this mentality — the reconceptualization of human beings as medical tools and resources — is way more dangerous than gender upheaval, species-mixing, or even abortion. Abortions, no matter what you think of them, are defensive. Tissue harvesting, on the other hand, carries an affirmative mandate. It entitles you, and arguably obliges you, to deliberately create new human life, which will then live or die based on its utility to others.
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