ABSTRACT
The National Medical museum had put on a small temporary exhibition entitled 'The cyberstork' which, according to the museum director: places the Biotechnology Act in the museum not because the act is no longer relevant to contemporary society nor because people view it as a museum piece. The Cyber-Stork is their contribution. It is a so-called hotspot-exhibition: a thematic exhibition of current interest. Reproductive technologies have become the subject of politics and policies, reflecting an interface between public and private spheres. Debates about these technologies-cum-practices converge in contested sites where fundamental values are exposed - such as the meanings of biological connectedness and the family. The Biotechnology Act regulates assisted conception, research on embryos, cloning, pre-implantation diagnosis, genetic examination of children born and genetic therapy. The law grants the child upon turning 18 the right to know its biological origin. However, the law does not oblige the parents to tell the child of the way it has been conceived.
