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White House Urges Senate to Ban Human Cloning

The U.S. White House urged Monday the U.S. Congress to ban human cloning, a reaction after a company announced it had created human embryos through cloning for the first time.


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The U.S. White House urged Monday the U.S. Congress to ban human cloning, a reaction after a company announced it had created human embryos through cloning for the first time.

Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer said such work amounts to human cloning and "banning it would be in the president's view." He urged the Senate to act on anti-cloning legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 31. "The president hopes that as a result of this first crossing of the line and this first step into a morally consequential realm of creating a life to take a life in the name of science, that the Senate will act on the House legislation so that this procedure can be banned," Fleischer said.

On Sunday, Worcester, Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology Inc. announced that it had created human embryos through cloning. The company said that the purpose of such experiment is not to create a human being but mine the embryo for stem cells used to treat diseases.




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