AAAS Joins Call Against Proposed United Nations Ban on Therapeutic Cloning

AAAS has joined a coalition of 125 health, research, educational and other groups in signing a letter that urges United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the U.N. General Assembly to reject a measure that would ban stem cell research involving therapeutic human cloning.

A proposed ban introduced by Costa Rica and strongly backed by the current U.S. administration failed to win approval two years ago, but debate on the measure and a Belgian alternative is scheduled to begin on 21 October in New York.

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