The UN has been debating how to address embryonic cloning and research for at least the last 4 years. Last fall, a UN committee was looking into two different proposals, one that would call on all members to ban such research, the other that would allow each member state to decide for itself.
Now, a UN general assembly committee has voted 71 to 35 (with 43 abstentions) to take the proposal for banning such research before the full UN assembly.
This would generally look like we're headed toward a ban on "human cloning" and possibly stem cell research. Unfortunately, the wording of the resolution isn't so clear. Some countries, such as Korea and the U.K., said that the language is too vague and could ban therapeutic cloning, not just reproductive cloning.
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