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Britain Approves Human Cloning

Posted by timothy on from the please-be-careful-with-those-things dept.

albat0r writes: "The scientific community in Britain scored a huge victory on February 27th. A very influential and powerful committee in the House of Lords ruled that embryo cloning should be allowed to proceed-but only under strict conditions. The United States currently has ban on all forms of human cloning."

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  1. Re:Hmm.. by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    On the other hand, you're allowed to use aborted foetuses to start new stem cell lines for research.

    I hate it when people say it that way. You can extract stem cells before the embryo has reached a fetus, and then culture the stem cells... Maybe if people would stop saying "aborted fetus" and instead used "extracted embryo", then the world would accept this awesome discovery a little more...

    ...but maybe we won't have to accept it...