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UN Committee Endorses Anti-Cloning Resolution.

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| March 01, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 1998 National Right to Life Committee, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In a major triumph almost completely ignored by the major media, the United Nations' deadlock over cloning was broken February 18 when the UN's Legal Committee voted 71-35 with 43 abstentions to accept a declaration calling on all nations to enact laws prohibiting all forms of human cloning.

The UN Declaration on Human Cloning called on member states "to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."

Supporters are hopeful the vote will provide momentum to proposals in the United States Congress to ban all forms of human cloning.

"We're obviously very pleased," Richard Grenell,…

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