ADVISORY PANEL LIKELY TO BACK PARTIAL HUMAN CLONING FOR RESEARCH.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 5, 1997 | Copyright information

A proposal to allow lab experiments on human cloning but forbid the actual replication of a person drew immediate outcries yesterday from anti-abortion groups, who say that would permit ``grave evils.''

However, the partial-cloning recommendation from a federal advisory panel brought praise from biotechnology groups, who say it would allow valuable research while essentially calling a timeout on efforts to actually make cloned humans.

The panel, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, meets Saturday to draw up final recommendations for President Clinton on the stance ...

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