BIOETHICS: UN backs ban on human cloning*

As the Federal Parliament prepares to consider Australia’s policy on reproductive technology, the United Nations General Assembly in New York has voted overwhelmingly to ban all forms of human cloning.The General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on Human Cloning, by which member states were called on to adopt all measures necessary to prohibit all forms of human cloning incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.The measure was overwhelmingly adopted, with 84 nations in …

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