ARGUMENTS over the scope of a proposed worldwide ban on cloning are buying time for mavericks who want to create the first human clones, experts have warned Â鶹´«Ã½.
This week the UN General Assembly, meeting in New York, will be setting out the broad areas to be covered by a proposed treaty banning human cloning. The treaty will be formally drafted next year, and if all goes to plan it could be in place within months.
Almost everyone agrees that cloning for reproductive purposes – producing cloned babies, in other words – should be outlawed. But opinion is sharply…
