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UPDATE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND CLONING.
The substantive debate on cloning which began in the United Nations last year was over whether or not the negotiating mandate should be for a Comprehensive Convention to ban all human cloning or if the negotiating mandate would be for a ban on "live born" cloning only, which would allow the creation and killing of cloned human embryos for research purposes - - in effect, a "clone and kill" Convention.
On November 6, by a close vote of 80-79 with 15 abstentions in the Sixth (legal) Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, a motion was passed for a two-year delay in discussion and action on the parameters of a mandate for the negotiation by a working group that would draft the text for a Convention Banning Human Cloning. This was not a vote on the substance of the debate on human cloning but a procedural vote to delay.
It is sad that action by the United Nations failed to move forward on such an urgent and critical ethical and human rights issue.
The growing consensus for a principled proposal for a total ban was a result of intense efforts led by Costa Rica, the Bush Administration, the Holy See with the assistance of numerous other nations which co-sponsored the proposal, and pro-life Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), including National Right to Life.
The narrowly passed procedural motion for non-action and deferral for two years was proposed by the chair of the 57-member Organization of Islamic States (OIC). In spite of the fact that 16 of its members are co-sponsors of the Costa Rican Resolution for a total ban (12 of the co-sponsors voted against the non-action proposal, three did not vote, and ten other OIC members either did not vote or abstained), the chair of the OIC claimed that this action was a consensus decision by the OIC. All but two of the Arab OIC members voted for the non-action.
In its statement, the OIC emphasized that this motion represented no decision on the substance of the matter, but was an effort to gain more time for Muslim scientific and religious experts to study the issue. The representative of Uganda, ...
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