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World should ban human cloning,
except medical: U.N.
Reuters
Monday November 12, 2007
The world should quickly ban cloning of humans and only allow
exceptions for strictly controlled research to help treat diseases
such as diabetes or Alzheimer's, a U.N. study said on Sunday.
Without a ban, experts at the U.N. University's Institute of
Advanced Studies said that governments would have to prepare legal
measures to protect clones from "potential abuse, prejudice
and discrimination".
"A legally-binding global ban on work to create a human
clone, coupled with freedom for nations to permit strictly controlled
therapeutic research, has the greatest political viability of
options available," the study said.
"Whichever path the international community chooses it will
have to act soon -- either to prevent reproductive cloning or
to defend the human rights of cloned individuals," said A.H.
Zakri, head of the Institute, which is based in Yokohama, Japan.
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Almost all governments oppose human cloning and more than 50
have legislation outlawing cloning. But negotiations about an
international ban collapsed in 2005 because of disagreements over
research cloning, also known as therapeutic cloning.
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