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Article: Group seeks ruling from World Court to outlaw human cloning.(Brief Article)
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- Transplant News
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- October 31, 2003
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A group of scientists, doctors, and legal experts asked the United Nations to seek an advisory opinion from the World Court declaring human cloning to be a "crime against humanity."
"The World Court is the ultimate authority on international law, and [its] opinion...would bring a very strong legal and moral force to bear against the would-be cloners," said attorney Bernard Siegel of Coral Gables, FL, who organized the initiative.
Siegel sued Clonaid, a firm linked to the Raelian movement that believes extraterrestrials created humankind, after it claimed in December to have cloned the first human baby. Scientists continue to doubt that claim, although ...