The United Nations faces an opportunity to turn this moral certainty into international law when a committee takes up discussion of a possible treaty that would make what is known as “reproductive cloning” a criminal offence.Building on a long line of international treaties targeting unethical practices,from human slavery to the use of biological weapons,the United Nations is likely to be asked to approve a new agreement that would place human cloning in the same category.
In this case,however,the United Nations is in danger of shooting itself in the foot.For the debate over the outlawing of reproductive cloning has been hijacked by those whose principal goal is different.To achieve this,they are seeking to have the proposed ban extended to cover not only the reproductive
cloning
of
human
beings,but
socalled “therapeutic cloning” as well.This involves growing fertilised embryos for several days,and then extracting from them cells that might later be used as replacement tissue or organs for other individuals.
Notes:
①ethically adv.伦理上 ②unethical adj.不道德的
③therapeutic adj.治疗的 ④hijack vt.劫持
长短句分析:Ever since the world was introduced to Dolly,the cloned sheep,in 1997,various fears have been expressed that researchers would be tempted to apply to humans the techniques that were used to produce her.
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