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Previous Volume 346:1599-1602 May 16, 2002 Number 20

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In the immediate aftermath of the birth of Dolly the sheep, the national debate over the banning of human cloning focused almost exclusively on the issue of safety. President Bill Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, for example, recommended in 1997 that Congress impose a five-year moratorium on attempts to clone a human because of the likely physical harm to the cloned infant.¹ Congress did not act on this suggestion, but even if it had, that moratorium would already be almost over. Cloning is now back on the congressional agenda, with a new focal point: the creation of cloned embryos for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The President's Position

The House of Representatives

The House Debate

The Senate Bills

Compromise Positions

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From the Health Law Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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N Engl J Med 2002; 347:1619-1622, Nov 14, 2002. Correspondence

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