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Timeline: 1997: President Clinton responds. |
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On March 4, 1997, President
Clinton, in response to the large scale human cloning
ethics debate brought about by Ian Wilmut's announcement
of the creation of
Dolly, proposed a five year
moratorium on federal and privately funded human cloning
research. In addition to this proposal, Clinton asked the
National Bioethics Advisory Commission to review the
prospects of human cloning and determine if legal
preventive actions should be taken. Clinton followed up
this proposal with the Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997,
but to this point, largely due to lobbying efforts of
scientists fearing that a cloning ban could jeopardize
the continuation of potentially life saving research, no
anti-cloning legislation has been passed into federal
law.
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