NEW YORK, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – United Nations members are in meetings this week to prepare the way for negotiations toward an international convention to ban reproductive human cloning. Members of a committee of the United Nations General Assembly, dubbed the “U.N. Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings” and formed in December 2001, are preparing an agenda for talks which are expected to begin next year. The committee met for the first time last February to recommend which legal issues should be addressed in a future convention, describing reproductive cloning as a “troubling and unethical” development in biotechnology. “We went as far as we could … at [that] time,” said Peter Tomka of Slovakia, the committee’s chairman. Some were pushing to negotiate a broader ban on all human cloning for therapeutic, experimental and research purposes. For U.N. press releases on human cloning see: https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/soc4599.doc.htm For related LifeSite coverage see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/01081002.html
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UN DIPLOMATS PREPARE REPRODUCTIVE HUMAN CLONING BAN
NEW YORK, September 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) – United Nations members are in meetings this week to prepare the way for negotiations toward an international convention to ban reproductive human cloning. Members of a committee of the United Nations General Assembly, dubbed the “U.N. Ad Hoc Committee on an International Convention against the Reproductive Cloning of Human Beings” and formed in December 2001, are preparing an agenda for talks which are expected to begin next year. The committee met for the first time last February to recommend which legal issues should be addressed in a future convention, describing reproductive cloning as […]
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