He is a polemicist with a sharp eye for stories most likely to outrage the reader and to make his point about the troubling direction we are headed in. A federal judge in the case refused to dismiss the suit and said that a pharmacist may sue her employer under a state conscience law which protects persons who refuse to perform or participate in medical procedures which result in abortion. New techniques for genetically manipulating sperm may allow scientists to circumvent existing laws prohibiting human germline engineering and reproductive cloning, and increase their technical capabilities. Experimenting on cloning human cells is a dangerous and irresponsible endeavor, Professor Andrei Akopyan, head of Russia's human reproduction center, charged Thursday in an ITAR-TASS news agency report. Reproductive experts and bioethicists say the technology already exists to clone a human, and somewhere in the world right now, someone probably is doing just that, if they haven't already done it.
Japan gets round restriction.
Although cloning humans is banned under Japanese law, the new technique gets round the restriction because it uses cloning to produce the seed for a new baby rather than the baby itself. Baby is thriving well. A study of US teens has found that those who publicly pledge to refrain from sex before marriage on average delay having sex about 18 months longer than other teens. On that day, at the behest of Prime Minister Tony Blair, the British Parliament passed legislation to allow the cloning of human beings under the strict provision that ALL of these cloned human beings MUST be killed. The drug can only be used by women who are less than seven weeks pregnant.