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U.S Says "We very strongly feel that no decision is better than a bad decision" BY LifeSiteNews.com UNITED NATIONS, November 6, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The proposal by France and Germany for an international treaty banning only reproductive cloning, is on hold for a year since the United States and over 30 other countries are insisting on a ban on all human cloning. A U.S. official called the delay a major victory for Washington at the United Nations, saying, "We very strongly feel that no decision is better than a bad decision."Pro-life groups involved at the international level resoundingly agree. Both Campaign Life Coalition Canada and the UK Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) agreed that it is preferable to have no agreement than an unethical one.Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSite: "Just as it would not be ethical to accept a treaty that banned rape against white women and was silent about rape against women of other backgrounds, a treaty which would ban human cloning for reproductive purposes but permit the creation of embryonic humans for purposes of experimentation is totally unacceptable."Speaking from Brussels, Peter Smith, SPUC's representative at the UN, said: "This is a crucial victory. A ban on so-called reproductive cloning would have given a signal to countries such as Germany to change their laws to allow so-called therapeutic human cloning, which always involves the destruction of human embryos."Germany has laws which explicitly ban human cloning for any purpose. The German delegation's tactic here seems to have been to obtain an international agreement to only ban human cloning for birth so that Germany could then use the excuse of compliance with this agreement to open its laws to allow cloning for research. Such unethical research would involve the deliberate creation, manipulation and destruction of human beings."See related LifeSite coverage:  LIFESITE REPORT ON U.N. CLONING TREATY PROGRESS http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/sep/02092702.htmlUN DIPLOMATS PREPARE REPRODUCTIVE HUMAN CLONING BAN http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/sep/02092408.htmlUS, VATICAN AND OTHERS ASK FOR INTERNATIONAL TREATY TO BAN ALL HUMAN CLONING http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/feb/02022701.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/treaty-on-hold-for-a-year-as-30-countries-prefer-ban-on-all-human-cloning/

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