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NEW YORK CLONING BILL ALLOWED CLONED BABIES TO BE GESTATED TO 9th MONTH

ALBANY, April 3, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The New York State Catholic Conference condemned a bill passed by the state Assembly March 19 that authorizes the creation of human life by cloning for use in medical experiments. The Conference called the bill a moral outrage.

Richard E. Barnes, executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference said, "This bill is a moral outrage, made worse by the deceptive nature of the arguments in its favor. The sponsors are calling it a 'cloning ban,' but in fact the exact opposite is true. According to the language of the bill, doctors in New York State could clone human beings, grow them in women's wombs or in a laboratory and then kill them for the harvesting of their stem cells. The only 'ban' is that the babies created through cloning would be prohibited by law from being born."

See the NY State Catholic Conference release:
http://www.nyscatholicconference.org/news/2003/nr030319.htm

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