Does the world need therapeutic cloning research? UN members are preparing to vote on a resolution to ban human cloning.
Scientists from around the world yesterday urged the United Nations to ban reproductive cloning of humans.
American and Vatican differences with France and Germany have delayed work on drafting a U.N. treaty against human cloning for at least a year.
The United States has derailed for at least a year a Franco-German proposal for a global ban on human cloning that the U.S. antiabortion movement rejects as too narrow.
A special United Nations task force has proposed that cloning to create a human baby be banned in all of the body's 190 member states, a step that experts say is unprecedented in the U.N.'s 57-year history.