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In February the U.S. Senate voted 54 to 42 against bringing an anticloning bill directly to the floor for a vote.¹ During the debate, more than 16 scientific and medical organizations, including the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and 27 Nobel prize–winning scientists, agreed that there should be a moratorium on the creation of a human being by somatic nuclear transplants. What the groups objected to was legislation that went beyond this prohibition to include cloning human cells, genes, and tissues. An alternative proposal was introduced by Senator Edward M. Kennedy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Cloning and Imagination

Cloning and Reproduction

Moratoriums and Bans on Human Cloning

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