[extropy-chat] Arab states want ban on therapeutic cloning

[Michael Howell]

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From: Damien Broderick
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Subject: [extropy-chat] Arab states want ban on therapeutic cloning

http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1421&language=1

<...There is also opposition within parts of the medical community. Ali  
Khalifa, for example, professor of medicine at Cairo's Ain Shams  
University, says that fully-fledged use of cloning technology is prohibited  
because of dangers it poses "to the human personality, human dignity and  
honor, and human family and society".

According to Khalifa, there is no justification for cloning human embryos  
and then killing them to extract stem cells for therapeutic purposes, as  
some scientists are already doing. "[This is] murder in the name of  
scientific advancement," he says.>
     Really, what does he call letting thousands of people suffer and die without that technology. Apparently embryos are people to.


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