November 16, 2007
Experts Recommend International Human Cloning Ban
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For the first time, scientists have successfully created dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, a technological breakthrough that is bound to revive concerns about the ethics of possible human cloning. According to a new report from the UN University Institute for Advanced Studies, the international community faces a stark choice regarding the future of human cloning—it must either ban the practice or create a framework in which rights of cloned individuals are protected. In 2005, negotiations for an international cloning ban collapsed following disagreements about whether or not to permit research cloning, also known as therapeutic cloning.
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