No clone zone

Cloning of humans should be outlawed worldwide through an international
moratorium, says a report from Britain’s Royal Society. The report condemns
cloning as “unethical”. “We realise there’d be significant practical problems
for governments to impose and police such a moratorium,” says a spokesman for
the society. Earlier this year, the Rome-based doctor Severino Antinori
announced plans to clone humans. The society fears that a backlash against
cloning entire humans could jeopardise medical uses of the technology.