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August 12, 2004

Britain grants license for human cloning

The BBC reports that Britain granted a license for human cloning yesterday, making it the second country to allow licensing of human cloning.

University researchers hoping to create insulin-producing cells for diabetics now have a license for their work in Britain.

Because embryos must be destroyed to harvest stem cells, embryonic stem cell cloning has been a hot political topic, both in Britain and elsewhere.  The ProLife Party of Britain is considering the prospect of suing.  In the United States, federal funding for stem cell research and cloning is prohibited, and several states also prohibit any embryo cloning.  Opponents include the Vatican, and Life Site.

The BBC article does a good job of explaining how cloning works, as does howstuffworks.com.  Other sites of interest include The Human Cloning Foundation, Advanced Cell Technology, a BBC article "Cloning humans: Can it really be done?," and newscientist.com.

This promises to be a highly debated topic for quite a while, so we should all be aware of the argument each side is making.

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