<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Damien Broderick</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> 'ExI chat list'</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat] Arab states want ban on therapeutic cloning</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P>http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1421&language=1<BR><BR><...There is also opposition within parts of the medical community. Ali <BR>Khalifa, for example, professor of medicine at Cairo's Ain Shams <BR>University, says that fully-fledged use of cloning technology is prohibited <BR>because of dangers it poses "to the human personality, human dignity and <BR>honor, and human family and society".<BR><BR>According to Khalifa, there is no justification for cloning human embryos <BR>and then killing them to extract stem cells for therapeutic purposes, as <BR>some scientists are already doing. "[This is] murder in the name of <BR>scientific advancement," he says.></P> <P> Really, what does he call letting thousands of people suffer and die without that technology. Apparently embryos are people to.</P> <P><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat mailing list<BR>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>