cloning: 100% extra news (part 2)

With President Bush deciding to severely restrict cloning research in the USA and the Italian Dr Antinori recruiting couples for the first human clones, this controversial subject has hit the headlines around the globe.  Once again, cloning is breaking news and the following extracts are taken from the world's press.

A West Virginia lawyer says he has withdrawn his support for a controversial French researcher who had offered to clone his dead son...The federal Food and Drug Administration reported in June that the researcher, Brigitte Boisselier, had agreed not to attempt an experiment or research on human cloning until the effort's legality was determined...

A week before his visit to Pope John Paul II, where he got an unexpected sermon on the evils of embryonic stem cell research, President Bush received a forceful letter from an official in his own denomination urging an extended ban on stem cell experimentation...

The United Methodist Church has urged one of its best-known members, President Bush, to maintain a moratorium on government-aided stem cell research using human embryos...

The House yesterday passed a sweeping bill that would outlaw the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose, whether to make cloned babies or to produce potentially therapeutic stem cells...

The United States House of Representatives has voted to ban all human cloning.  The legislation, supported by President George W Bush, passed by a 265-162 vote...

The House voted to ban all cloning of human embryos...casting Congress' first votes on the divisive ethical issue after a day of emotional debate on science, morality and the definition of life...The bill passed by 265-162...

Nothing short of a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning will prevent risky and unethical attempts to create duplicate babies, Britain's most eminent academic body said yesterday...

Scientists braced for human clone ban 

The Government, as part of a package to ease public fears about genetic technology, is banning human cloning.  Health Secretary Alan Milburn is announcing multi-million pound investments designed to put Britain at the forefront of "genetic technology".  But he is expected to stress that boundaries and barriers are needed in order to overcome public fears about the new science...

Britain is set to become the first country in the world to ban human cloning as part of a strategy to assure the public that genetic technology will be harnessed for beneficial use only...

Research on human embryos that could lead to cures for chronic conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's was approved by MPs last night...they voted by 366 to 174, a majority of 192, to permit stem cell research on embryos up to 14 days old...

The Church of England has entered the controversy over embryo research by suggesting that cloning human embryos is no more unnatural than a heart transplant.  A briefing paper for the Church's Board for Social Responsibility dismisses fears that allowing scientists to create embryos as part of research into new treatments for disease would be the "slippery slope" towards cloning human beings.