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London, SE11 4AB, United Kingdom
Telephone: (020) 7091 7091
Fax: (020) 7820 3131
Email: information@spuc.org.uk
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News, SPUC welcomes UN General Assembly vote against all human cloning
Westminster, 8 March 2005 - The Society for the Protection of UnbornChildren (SPUC) has welcomed this afternoon's vote by the United
Nations General Assembly to accept a declaration supporting a total
ban on all human cloning.
The declaration calls upon member-states to adopt urgent legislation
outlawing all cloning practices "as they are incompatible with human
dignity and the protection of human life". The declaration also calls
upon countries to "prevent the exploitation of women", as cloning
requires harvesting eggs from women.
The full General Assembly today considered the 18th February report of
the UN's Legal Committee and voted to accept the report's declaration,
with 84 nations voting in favour, 34 voting against and 37 abstaining.
This represents an increase of 13 nations voting in favour above the
number who voted in favour in the Legal Committee.
Pat Buckley and Peter Smith, SPUC's representatives at the United
Nations in New York and lobbying there in support of the declaration,
said in a joint statement: "It is a great day, because the
international community has come together to declare that the sanctity
of human life cannot be sacrificed in the name of the dangerous and
spurious science of destructive embryonic cloning".
John Smeaton, SPUC national director, commented: "In the light of this
historic decision by the United Nations, we will be calling upon
Britain to halt and declare an immediate moratorium on all current
human cloning experiments."
John Smeaton, SPUC national director can be contacted on +44 (0)7785
325808. Anthony Ozimic, political secretary, can be contacted on +44
(0)7939 177683. They can also be contacted on +44 (0)20 7222 5845.
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