Claim of human reproductive cloning provokes calls for international ban

Top scientists back human cloning ban

More than 60 of the world's leading science academies have called for a UN ban on the reproductive cloning of humans, to prevent the exploitation of vulnerable people. But they also urged that any such ban should not extend to cloning human tissue for the treatment of diseases. Britain forbids human cloning but has given the go-ahead to research into so-called therapeutic cloning for diseases s...

Nations fail to agree on extent of human cloning ban.

850 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003, 81 (11) A group of children look at Batista, a 2-year-old boy suffering from severe malnutrition at the "New Hope" refugee camp in Nabuangongo, Angola, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-east of Luanda. The study found that, of those surveyed, the death rate was four times higher than normal for children under the age of 5: 4.5 deaths per 10 ...

A constitutional analysis of the proposed ban on non-reproductive human cloning: an unjustified violation of freedom of expression?

Like all other Canadian legislation, in order to be valid law, the provisions of Bill C-13, An act respecting assisted human reproduction, must be consistent with the terms of Canada’s Constitution, and, in particular, must not unjustifiab ly infringe upon the individual rights and freedoms set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. With this fundamental legal principle in mind, th...

International response to human cloning.

The ethics of human reproductive cloning.

This article addresses the question of whether human reproductive cloning could be ethically justifiable in at least some cases involving infertile couples who would choose cloning as a way to have a genetically related child. At present, the risk of congenital anomalies constitutes a compelling argument against human reproductive cloning. The article explores whether reproductive cloning could...