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Thursday October 10, 2002
U.S. PUSHING TO HAVE U.N. CLONING-BAN TREATY IN PLACE BY NOVEMBER
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UNITED NATIONS, October 10, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The United States proposal for the United Nations treaty on human cloning which aims to ban all forms of human cloning - both reproductive and so-called 'therapeutic' is facing opposition from France and Germany. The total-ban proposed by the U.S. as well as the Philippines and Spain has the backing of the Vatican and several other countries including Italy, Argentina and Costa Rica.
The U.S. proposal, a draft of which was obtained by ABC News Tuesday, calls for a moratorium on human cloning pending the adoption of an international convention. It also urges nations to "prohibit those techniques of genetic engineering that may have adverse consequences on the respect for human dignity."
A French diplomat attempted to suggest that a total ban may not be achievable but a ban on reproductive-cloning only would be acceptable to all. However, the pro-life perspective on the matter is that therapeutic cloning would be worse than reproductive since with reproductive cloning the human beings generated from the illicit process will at least have a chance of being born whereas those lives created for 'therapeutic' purposes will only be killed through experimentation and never be given a chance to be born.
See the ABC News coverage:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021008_2206.html
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