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HUMAN CLONING IS WRONG.

There are HUNDREDS of reasons. I support France and Germany
in their attempt at bringing the world together on this one.
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CHANGES DATELINE FROM BERLIN
By Associated Press, 8/8/2001 20:01

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Germany and France have launched a
campaign for a U.N. treaty to ban human cloning, which
they say is unacceptable and incompatible with human
dignity. The U.N. ambassadors from the two nations presented
Secretary-General Kofi Annan with a letter requesting that
their initiative be included on the agenda of the new General Assembly session, which begins next month.
Germany and France also circulated a proposed resolution
Wednesday asking the General Assembly to create a special
committee to draft a legally binding international
convention banning human cloning.
"The German-French initiative is aimed at internationally
banning the reproductive cloning of human beings and at
establishing ethical barriers against related research,"
said a joint statement from the U.N. missions of the two
countries, which delivered the letter to Annan on Tuesday.
The European neighbors are also embarking on diplomatic
efforts to win global support for their initiative, the
statement said. Last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to make all human cloning illegal and punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $1 million in fines.
In Washington on Tuesday, researchers told a meeting of
scientists they would try to clone human beings soon despite widespread ethical objections and arguments that it is
medically risky.
"The cloning plans are inhuman and irresponsible," Germany's
research minister, Edelgard Bulmahn, said in an interview
with the Berliner Zeitung daily being published Thursday.
"Freedom of research finds its borders where human dignity
is affected," she added, predicting that the chances of
passing a worldwide ban are good.

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The United States makes me laugh. They give stiffer
penalties for jaywalking.

The large institutions that are working on cloning spend
millions of dollars, like you and I spend a dollar. The
only way to deter them is to make it personal. Example:
The top bosses are responsible. They should be made to sell
their homes to pay the fines, and then be given a long jail
sentence. All their research should also be destroyed so that
their successors don't just pick up where they left off.
People are more afraid of losing their personal possessions
than anything else.

LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD. TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REP "NO HUMAN CLONING!"

JBS