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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:49:07 -0700
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Subject: [isml] Urgent need to ban cloning, say NZ advisers
>From AFP,
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=asia/headl
ines/010809/asia/afp/Urgent_need_to_ban_cloning__say_NZ_advisers.html
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Thursday, August 9 9:27 AM SGT
Urgent need to ban cloning, say NZ advisers
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Aug 9 (AFP) -
Foreign researchers could attempt to clone a human in New Zealand unless
legislation banning the practice is put in place urgently, the Independent
Biotechnology Advisory Councilwarned Thursday.
The group advises the government on science issues.
The caution follows the announcement by an Italian doctor, Severino
Antinori, that he plans to begin the process of creating cloned babies for
infertile couples by November.
Antinori gained worldwide notice by helping a 62-year-old woman have a child
in 1994 with the aid of artificial insemination.
IBAC chairwoman Anne Dickinson said legislation was urgently needed.
"If we don't put legislation in place we become a target country for people
to do things they're not allowed to do in their own countries," she warned.
"It's a big issue overseas and New Zealand is just catching up."
The shape of New Zealand legislation would depend on how people saw the
ethical issues.
"If they regard an embryo as human life, that is just the same as you or me,
then they won't want that sort of research. If they see it simply as a ball
of cells, then they will take a different view," Dickinson said.
A spokesman for Attorney-General Margaret Wilson said the government had yet
to take a position on the issue.
It would make a decision this month on two bills dealing with human cloning
that were being considered in select committee, the spokesman said.
One of the bills is government backbencher Dianne Yates' Human Assisted
Reproductive Technology Bill, which has languished in select committee since
Yates also said there was great urgency to pass a law and that Antinori
could attempt to clone a human in New Zealand next month under the present
regime.
"At the moment the health select committee is totally preoccupied and bound
up with cannabis," Yates said.
"I think the future of the human race is more important and am hoping more
urgency will be given to this matter. The brave new world is upon us."
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