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United States : The UN forbids any form of human cloning
The General Assembly of the United Nations has just adopted a declaration asking member states to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for therapeutic purposes. The declaration, which is not legally binding, marks the end of four years of negotiations on an international convention on cloning. Many delegations have criticised the lack of distinction between therapeutic and reproductive cloning.
Human Cloning
What is Human cloning ? Cloning ethics & human cloning, against human cloning. A "human clone" is a time-delayed identical twin of another person. A clone is not an exact replica of the original, ...
Pro-Life Priest?s Society Finally Approved
AMARILLO, Texas, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? Priests for Life?s new Society of Apostolic Life, the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, has received official approval from its bishop.On December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, Bishop John Yanta of Amarillo, Texas, signed the approval for the Society that will train priests, deacons, and lay missionaries to devote their lives to the unborn. Priests of the Society make special promises related to the defense of human life, and are at the disposal of the Society to travel throughout the United States to do the...
The Bioethics of Therapeutic Cloning:A Brief Primer on the Issues
"Humankind has now embarked into the 'Age of Therapeutic Cloning, announced Bernard Siegel, executive director of pro-embryonic stem cell research at the Genetics Policy Institute, This is a huge step forward on a par with the first isolation of human...
Pro-inflammatory protein contributes to Crohn's disease according to UCSD School of Medicine study
A pro-inflammatory protein activated by bacteria in the colon plays a key role in the development of experimental colitis in mice - a mouse-version of human Crohn's disease - according to research by scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. The study, published in the February 4, 2005 issue of the journal Science, identified interleukin-1Beta (IL-1) as a major cause of severe inflammation in the mouse model of Crohn's disease, which is a painful, chronic and little-understood inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in humans, affecting more than 500,000 Americans... click link for more info.
A proposal to ban the cloning of human embryos would stop future stem...
A 23-year-old man convicted in the fatal shootings of two former co-workers during a robbery of an Arby's restaurant was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
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