Commentary The news rocked the scientific world. Mouse embryos were successfully developed half-way through the normal gestation period using artificial wombs. Scientists were ecstatic. The New York Times reported: “The mouse embryos looked perfectly normal. All their organs were developing as expected, along with their limbs and circulatory and nervous systems. Their tiny hearts were beating at a normal 170 beats per minute.” Meanwhile, scientists involved in human embryonic research are moving at a fast pace toward the same place as the mouse artificial uterus experimenters. Researchers currently work under a voluntary guideline known as the “14-day Rule” that requires embryo experimenters to cease their studies and destroy their research embryos after two weeks. When enacted, the rule was much less than met the eye since scientists could not maintain embryos outside a woman’s body for longer than two weeks anyway. Thus, scientists pulled a fast one. They assured a …