Dr Megan Best reflects on the legalisation of Mitochondrial Donation in the United Kingdom in 2015.
Dr Megan Best reflects on the legalisation of Mitochondrial Donation in the United Kingdom in 2015.
In this paper, originally published in CASE, Dr Megan Best discusses when human life begins.
In this 2020 paper, Dr Megan Best considers the pressure to extend the time human embryos can be grown for research purposes.
In March 2022, the Australian Federal parliament legalised the controversial procedure of Mitochondrial Donation, an assisted reproductive technology which allows combination of DNA from the parents and a female donor to create an embryo. Ethicentre made a submission to the 2021 Senate Inquiry which preceded the parliamentary debate.
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As we gather in the presence of God, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet, paying our respect to their Elders past and present and extending that respect to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people present with us. In his wisdom and love, our Heavenly Father gave this land to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. On this land, they met for generations before the coming of British settlers. As we now live together on these lands, we pray that God would unite us all in a knowledge of his Son, Jesus Christ, in whom and for whom all things were created.