Lawx through both regulation and prohibition carries us forward in the imaginary leap that is
necessary to take us from the embryonic being to the post-hunian being. Such beings
include the hybrid, the chimera, the genetically enhanced. the inheritably genetically
manipulated. the embryo with three genetic progenitors and the embryo produced by the
fusion of same sex gametes. In this paper I explore how the law. by prohibiting the creation
of certain kinds of embryos, is nevertheless giving legislative life to entities that are yet to be …