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Emergency Cloning Laws Rushed Through Britain's House of Lords

Britain's House of Lords Tuesday passed emergency legislation on cloning of human embryos.
It would impose a 10-year sentence on anyone who implanted an embryo in a woman other than one created by fertilisation.


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Britain's House of Lords Tuesday passed emergency legislation on cloning of human embryos.

It would impose a 10-year sentence on anyone who implanted an embryo in a woman other than one created by fertilisation.

The Labour Government says it made the decision because such a practice was unsafe and unethical.

It also says it wants to close loopholes in the biotechnology industry following claims by a US company that it had cloned a human embryo.

However, the bill will allow therapeutic cloning using the same technique which produced Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep.

The bill will be debated in the House of Commons on Thursday.






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