British House of Lords Allows Human-Animal Cloning, Passes Embryo Bill
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- The British House of Lords has approved a controversial bill that could pave the way for scientific research that greatly concerns the pro-life community and could open the door for expanding abortions. The chamber also turned back an amendment to stop the human-animal cloning. The House of Lords supported the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and defeated 268-96 an amendment to it to stop scientists from cloning human embryos with a little bit of animal DNA. Scientists want to create the clones to conduct experiments on diseases and how to alleviate them but pro-life groups say they should not be creating human life for the purpose of destroying it. The bill allows them to make the cloned embryos and experiment on them for 14 days before killing them. Lord Alton, a leading pro-life advocate, proposed the amendment and, with its failure, said he hoped to at least make it more difficult for scientists to get the licenses to clone the embryos.
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You have a beautiful dog that is smart, loyal, intelligent and with a loving disposition. Suddenly, tragedy strikes and your furry friend dies, would you have your beloved pet cloned? Well James Symington lost his german shepherd who died at the ripe old age of 16. He entered a contest which promised to clone his dearly departed for free. I guess James must have really loved his dog Takr, whom he cloned not once, not twice but FIVE TIMES! Here are more details on this report:
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