Poster
10-19-2004, 04:13 PM
Britain's national academy has responded to Bush’s statements to the UN which supported a ban on therapeutic and human reproductive cloning. The Royal Society told the UN that the United States should be free to make its own decisions inside its borders, but should not impose an international cloning ban. The president of the society, Lord May of Oxford, supports the Belgian plan, which would “outlaw human reproductive cloning but allow countries to make their own decision on therapeutic cloning.”
"’If this proposal was successful the United States and others would be still be free to ban all human cloning but countries that see the promise offered by therapeutic cloning can still carry out research,’ May explained.
"’The US government's approach at the UN appears more designed to influence domestic legislation, where attempts to introduce a total ban have so far failed, at the expense of a workable international ban on reproductive cloning,’ said May.”
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"’If this proposal was successful the United States and others would be still be free to ban all human cloning but countries that see the promise offered by therapeutic cloning can still carry out research,’ May explained.
"’The US government's approach at the UN appears more designed to influence domestic legislation, where attempts to introduce a total ban have so far failed, at the expense of a workable international ban on reproductive cloning,’ said May.”
For more information see: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=7&u=/nm/20041018/sc_nm/science_cloning_dc