Cloning and Stem Cell Research

A Submission to The House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research stating that human cloning for research and a major expansion of research on IVF embryos are being permitted in the face of international condemnation when it is far from evident that there is an urgent necessity to justify such dramatic moves. Such practices are likely to lead to cloning for birth, to further erosion of public confidence in the ethics of scientific research, and to an invidious promotion of treatments which many patients will regard as unconscionable. Cloning should be prevented before the regulations come into effect