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Human cloning proposals trigger
outcry from anti-abortion groups
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WASHINGTON (AP) —A propos
al to allow lab experiments on hu
man cloning but forbid the actual
replication of a person drew imme
diate outcries Wednesday 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 re
search while essentially calling a
timeout on efforts to actually
make cloned humans.
The panel, the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission, meets Satur
day to draw up final recommenda-
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John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe
Director, American Bioethics
Advisory Commission
tions for President Clinton on the
stance the federal government
should take on human cloning.
Despite a basic consensus, mem
bers still disagree on many details of
their recommendations, said one
member of the advisory group, who
spoke on condition of anonymity. He
said those differences may not be re
solved until Saturday.
At the White House, the Clinton
administration declined comment
until the commission issues its fi
nal report.
Cloning became an issue of gov
ernment concern after a Scottish sci
entist cloned a sheep, named Dolly,
from cells taken from adult sheep.
The experiment was the first to suc
cessfully clone a genetic duplicate in
dividual from an adult mammal. The
effort’s success prompted a call for
legislation to forbid human cloning.
Clinton asked Congress to wait on
considering cloning laws until the
group of scientists and ethicists
could study die issue.
Although final points remain un
resolved, a consensus of the 18-
member group will call for laws to
forbid human replication through
cloning, but to not address experi
mentation with cloned human cells
that go no further than a laboratory
dish, said the panel member.
The group’s position means that
research could continue on the “Dol
ly technique,” the panel member
said — research in which a human
embryo is made from the nucleus of
a mature cell joined in a lab dish with
a human egg without its nucleus.
However, such embryos could not
then be placed into a woman’s womb
for development into a baby.
Such a recommendation by the
commission permits “two separate
grave evils,” said John Cavanaugh-
O’Keefe, director of the American
Bioethics Advisory Commission, a
part of the American Life League Inc.
anti-abortion group.
What the scientific
PANEL AGREES ON:
Human cloning that leads
to the birth of a child
should be strictly forbid
den in all U.S. labs, both
private and public.
Human embryo research,! ifNl
including cloning re- 'W|
search, that stops short of] tan|
producing a child shouldi jisa
not be addressed by fed- ffle
era I law. But the morato
rium on federal money
for such embryo research
would continue.
The first, he said, was the creatioi"
in a lab of a cloned human embryi
the second was to prohibit implanta
tion and development of the embryo,
which eventually would be killed. ’
“This means it is OK to clone as
long as you kill,” he said. His group
considers any human embryo to be
a human, he said.
But Carl Feldbaum, president of
the Biotechnology Industry Organi
zation, which includes 700 compa
nies, applauded the proposed rec
ommendation.
"What we had hoped is that the
commission will draw a bright line
distinguishing between whole hu
man research and research which
uses only tissue that has been
cloned,” he said.
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