Our impotence to craft an American ethics of abortion has led to a “Wild West” of unregulated research with human embryos and women by the reproductive medicine industry. Because of a “free for all” research mentality, it is becoming almost impossible to suggest outlandish and reckless possibilities for the new reproductive research without seeing them actually pursued by its practitioners. This is not only because there are no effective laws regulating the industry, but also because the bioethics of the field are exclusively focused on the potential parent-clients and have nothing to say about the potential children that are (or should be) the whole purpose for the field in the first place. As prepared as I am for the unexpected and bizarre in this field, even I was surprised when a respected American specialist, knowing that his research could not be ethically or legally performed in the United States, trained a Chinese student to pursue it in China. The results of this exercise in “ethical arbitrage” were announced in the United States with much fanfare at the annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and entered the annals of American bioethics.