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Perhaps the best-known researcher attempting to defy the taboo on reproductive cloning is Severino Antinori, the maverick Italian gynecologist best known for helping a 62-year-old woman bear a child in 1994. Antinori, who dismisses his critics as "Taliban," told Time that reproductive cloning could help infertile couples...
The mainstream medical community is skeptical of Antinori's claims and takes a more moderate view of the issue. "There is a need for careful discussion and debate about human reproductive cloning," says Harry Griffin, assistant director at the Roslin Institute, where Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997. But...
The case for therapeutic cloning is less clear, clouded by as yet unproven medical and commercial possibilities. "If you could find a way of producing cells that would help maintain quality of life," Griffin says, "the market potential would be tremendous." But that potential would remain untapped if therapeutic cloning...
In France, a 1994 bioethics law forbids the cloning of human embryos for any reason. But earlier this year when the bill was revisited, a heated debate arose over therapeutic cloning. Last month a number of prominent researchers and physicians signed a petition for the authorization of therapeutic cloning. "Reproductive...
Consensus seems unlikely in the near future. For the best part of a year, a European Parliament committee has been holding hearings to establish a framework for cloning research. Last week, a resolution went before the Parliament that called for a moratorium on therapeutic cloning. But in the end - after...