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

[Damien Broderick]

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.>