UN rejects Bush push to ban stem cell research

[dArKeR]

The legal committee's 80-79 vote set back US attempts to outlaw forms of medical research involving cloning, including for therapeutic purposes.

A UN tradition of seeking broad international consensus in the drafting of treaties has set back a Bush administration campaign for a global ban on medical research on stem cells.

Washington, with backing from the US anti-abortion movement, tried to push a resolution through a UN committee on Thursday for the drafting of a treaty that would ban both the cloning of human beings and so-called "therapeutic" cloning, in which human cells are cloned for medical research.

Cloning research relies on embryo cells, or stem cells, because they can grow into all cells and tissues in the body.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/11/08/2003075071

[ThomWV]

1. Hubris

Who in the blazing bowels of hell do these people think they are in trying to dictate their concept of morality to the fuggin' planet?

[asjr]

4. un

They are called Republicans.

[Don_G]

2. Good Science Over Bad Religon Any Day

Besides, the Rethugs have enough money to go overseas for medical treatment.

[La_Serpiente]

3. What the hell do they want

to shove this right wing crap down the throats of other nations.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Well, yeah. That's precisely what they're aiming to do.

We're the only slobs who seem to be taking it, though. Everybody else seems to be standing up to the twit in the Oval Office.