Sentences with phrase «banned human cloning»

The law banned human cloning, although after a review in 2005 the law was amended the next year to allow therapeutic cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer.

After months of discussion, the group drafted a call to ban all human cloning and to limit ESCR to the use of the «excess» embryos created in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

The White House issued a statement saying that President Bush finds human cloning deeply troubling and that he «strongly supports legislation banning all human cloning.»

«Right now, the state of Iowa bans human cloning.

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• Canada's Defense Department has issued a paper condemning the use of human clones for military purposes and calling for an international treaty to ban any attempts toward that end.

I will continue to push for a ban on all forms of human cloning, a practice that demeans the dignity of the human person.

AAAS endorses a legally enforceable ban on efforts to implant a human cloned embryo for the purpose of reproduction.

AAAS, the world's largest general science society, has urged the United Nations to support embryonic cloning for research or «therapeutic» purposes, but ban all efforts to use cloning for human reproduction.

But, he cautioned, «Our discoveries also reinforce the need for a strict ban on human cloning for any purposes.»

BAC, however, calls for an outright ban on human reproductive cloning and affirms that scientists caught doing so would face the full force of the law, although final details of penalties for offenders have not been spelled out.

There should be a complete ban on the implantation of a human embryo created by the application of cloning technology into a womb, or any treatment of such a human embryo intended to result in its development into a viable infant.

On Friday, the Norwegian Parliament passed a law banning cloning of humans and other «highly developed organisms.»

Germany, France, Japan, and Australia have already banned cloning humans.

Some bioethicists have called for a new international ban that would clearly prohibit the implantation of a human clone in part because of the tantalizing research uses for nascent embryos.

It also urges «a ban on human cloning» and «a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research.»

Despite the controversy and the possibility of a worldwide ban on human cloning by the United Nations, scientists in the United States and Britain are already moving forward with attempts to repeat the process.

In the immediate wake of Dolly, politicians around the world proposed or implemented bans on human cloning.

Opponents said that the measure should have banned somatic cell nuclear transfer; it criminalized only the «implantation» of an embryo into a woman to create a human clone.

And is it so certain that the public would want a ban on every use of human cloning?

In the absence of a sufficiently wide ban on human cloning and gameteless reproduction, or a legally protected right not to be a parent, researchers in these scenarios have a legal green light to make tissue donors parents without any kind of consent; this is profoundly immoral and should be a legally actionable tort.

The state constitutional amendment now protects the right to conduct research to produce embryonic stem cells, while banning cloning to produce a human baby.

Other critics argued that the bill would weaken Iowa's ban on human cloning, even though the bill expressly prohibits cloning for reproductive purposes.

Republicans argue the bill would roll back Iowa's ban on human cloning procedures.

The bill, Senate File 162, carves out an exception to Iowa's 2002 ban on human cloning allowing researchers to use cloning techniques to produce embryonic stem cells for medical study.

Second, researchers still don't have a perfect grasp of the health risks involved in the process, and third, there's also the U.N.'s 2005 nonbinding human cloning ban to worry about.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)-- As the Senate prepares to tackle the thorny issue of forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research in the coming weeks, two senators are reintroducing a bill that would institute a national ban on all forms of human cloning.

She indicated that five states and over 20 countries have similar complete bans on cloning and that the United Nations has urged its member nations to enact such bans to preserve human dignity and protect women's health.

Below is the full text of the Senate's letter, followed by a summary of the legislation to ban human reproductive cloning and allow nuclear transplantation research to continue.

Summary of the legislation to ban human reproductive cloning and allow nuclear transplantation research to continue: