THE PHILIDELPHIA INQUIRER (03/5/97)
Clinton limits study of cloning While backing animal
research, he banned federal dollars for study on
humans. He urged private firms to agree.
WASHINGTON -- Warning against the temptation ``to play God,''
President Clinton yesterday banned federal funding of human-
cloning research and asked privately funded scientists to
halt such work until a national bioethics commission reviews
what he called ``troubling'' legal and ethical implications.
``Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches
beyond laboratory science,'' Clinton said during a brief
ceremony in the Oval Office, where he announced his executive
directive. ``I believe we must respect this profound gift and
resist the temptation to replicate ourselves.''
The President's order, effective immediately, comes 10 days
after Scottish scientists reported they had cloned a sheep
named Dolly from adult cells and two days after researchers
in Oregon revealed they had bred a pair of rhesus monkeys
from cloned embryo cells. ...
http://www2.phillynews.com/inquirer/97/Mar/05/front_page/CLON05.htm
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