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LONDON, March 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain's Law Lords, a group of House of Lords judges who act as the country's supreme court, have unanimously rejected a pro-life appeal seeking to ban human cloning for 'therapeutic' or research purposes.

The Pro-Life Alliance tried to show that embryo cloning for medical research falls outside the scope of the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. The pro-lifers previously won a case in the lower High Court, which ruled that the 1990 Act was ineffective to control cell nuclear replacement processes developed after 1990.

But Lord Bingham, one of the five Law Lords who upheld the law this week, said Parliament would have included such embryos in the Act “had [Parliament] known of them as a scientific possibility.”