This critical scientific research is under threat of being banned. Opponents are seeking a treaty in the United Nations that would ban all forms of cloning research by grouping reproductive cloning with therapeutic cloning research - a legitimate form of stem cell research that could quite possibly produce the next generation of lifesaving cures and treatments.
Reproductive cloning is dangerous and unethical and is vigorously opposed by GPI along with 95% of the public. Reproductive cloning must be distinguished from important research procedures; such as the therapeutic cloning of specific human cells, genes and other tissues. These procedures are safe, ethical, and do not and cannot lead to the birth of a human being. Policy-makers and the public have often lost the distinction between the reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
The stakes are extremely high. UN passage of a proposal to ban therapeutic cloning research sends a strong signal to the entire world. Threats of prohibition of therapeutic cloning research have already cast a pall over the entire realm of stem cell research and are causing a âbrain drainâ of promising young scientists who are leaving the field. The result may be a tragic postponement of the development of new treatments and cures.
- Re: [QUAD-L] stem cell research TonyPony1
- Re: [QUAD-L] stem cell research Stuntman
