While scientists and politicians in Washington, D.C., debated human cloning as a solution for infertility, tissue engineering experts in Pittsburgh yesterday talked about using cloning techniques to generate human replacement cells and tissues. The man who calls himself Rael testified to a congressional subcommittee Wednesday that to stop cloning would be a crime against humanity. Congressional leaders in the hearing promised to draft legislation that would ban human cloning, and President Bush has promised to sign such a law. NEW YORK - Scientists say growing evidence that cloning a healthy animal is difficult should give pause to anyone thinking of cloning humans, the New York Times reported yesterday. When Good Ethics Aren't Good Business Stories about courageous chief executives who, when faced with business pressures to do otherwise, choose to do the right thing invariably end up reading like morality tales.
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IT WAS not so many years ago that the idea of test-tube babies was regarded with horror. Now, they are commonplace, with hundreds of thousands in-vitro fertilised children having been born. What was regarded as weird and abhorrent became a curiosity and finally a widely accepted fact. The instinctive reaction of most to news this week an Italian doctor plans to clone humans is likewise greeted with consternation and alarm. The National Ethics Committee on Human Assisted Reproduction believes there are adequate checks in place to ensure human cloning could not occur in New Zealand without approval.