Bush aide attacks Britain for liberal law on cloning

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The Times

BRITAIN’S liberal policies on cloning will assist maverick doctors’ efforts to create a cloned human baby, according to President Bush’s most senior bioethics adviser.

By allowing scientists to clone human embryos for research, countries such as Britain that have permissive regulatory regimes are promoting the perfection of technology that will one day be abused for reproduction, Leon Kass, chairman of Mr Bush’s Council on Bioethics, said.

The only acceptable approach to cloning is a global ban, in line with a motion proposed by Costa Rica to be discussed by the United Nations today and tomorrow, he told the conference.

Britain, which supports a Belgian counter-motion that would outlaw reproductive cloning but allow individual nations to decide on use for therapeutic purposes, is on the wrong side of the moral argument, he said. Even permitting therapeutic cloning will assist the Raelian cult and maverick scientists to clone a human baby.

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