Religions > Atheism > Australian Gov to support US sponsored UN proposal to ban on stem Cell Research/Therapeutic Cloning
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"Meteorite Debris" |
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28 Nov 2004 03:35:39 PM |
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Australian Gov to support US sponsored UN proposal to ban on stem Cell Research/Therapeutic Cloning |
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1250698.htm
Stem Cell Research/Therapeutic Cloning
29 November 2004
The Australian government has instructed its delegates at the United
Nations to support a US and Costa Rican proposal to ban therapeutic
cloning. According to one of the pioneers of stem cell research,
Professor Irv Weissman of Stanford University, this will be the
equivalent of having banned DNA technology in the 70s. If that had
happened then a host of treatments now available would not exist. He
argues that therapeutic cloning of cells, which allows diseases to be
studied in ways never possible before, has the same potential.
Professor Weissman argues that ideology and fundamentalism will allow
hundreds of thousands of people to die who would have otherwise lived.
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| User: "Deoxyribo Nuclayton Acid" |
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| Title: Re: Australian Gov to support US sponsored UN proposal to ban on stem Cell Research/Therapeutic Cloning |
28 Nov 2004 06:45:26 PM |
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"Meteorite Debris" <abuse@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c14e8ab74076b41989f72@news.optusnet.com.au...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1250698.htm
Stem Cell Research/Therapeutic Cloning
29 November 2004
The Australian government has instructed its delegates at the United
Nations to support a US and Costa Rican proposal to ban therapeutic
cloning. According to one of the pioneers of stem cell research,
Professor Irv Weissman of Stanford University, this will be the
equivalent of having banned DNA technology in the 70s. If that had
happened then a host of treatments now available would not exist. He
argues that therapeutic cloning of cells, which allows diseases to be
studied in ways never possible before, has the same potential.
Professor Weissman argues that ideology and fundamentalism will allow
hundreds of thousands of people to die who would have otherwise lived.
If only the people who voted for Howard were the only ones to die, it would
be justice...unfortunately that's not going to happen...everyone has to pay
the price for Howard's religious reich and his Bush anal insertion
obsession.
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