U.S. Campaigning for Treaty Vs. Cloning

[Khephra]

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States is campaigning for a General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for a treaty to ban all forms of human cloning, but 23 countries are opposed and Islamic nations want a two-year delay.

U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte sent letters to ambassadors from about 100 countries that support a total ban, saying a delay would be "extremely unfortunate" and urging them to adopt the resolution when it comes up for a vote Thursday in the General Assembly's legal committee.

"There is a need to act now to confront the emerging threat of human cloning," Negroponte said, appealing to the ambassadors to vote against any motion to delay the resolution, which was sponsored by Costa Rica.

The cloning issue has deeply divided the 191-nation General Assembly, which traditionally seeks to reach a consensus on new treaties to generate the most support.

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[Dudley_DUright]

1. This is the kind of mindless sop to the christian right that

drives scientists nuts and has lead many good medical researchers to pick up and move to England. They make absolutely no distinction between therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning and they are trying to impose their narrow-minded view of morality on the rest of the world (again, just like the very first thing Bush did in office which was to reimpose the global abortion gag rule).

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A rival resolution introduced by Belgium and co-sponsored by 23 countries including France, Germany, Britain, China and Japan, calls for a ban only on cloning to produce babies, leaving the question of human cloning for research and medical experiments to individual countries.

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[Maple]

2. Insanity

There is no 'emerging threat'