Legal Aspect of Cloning

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• three American states (California, Michigan, Rhode Island) put a ban on human cloning
• President Clinton put a new law against human cloning on track (no use of federal money in research)
• Democrats not basically against cloning
• Republicans strictly against cloning (ongoing debate)
• No clear definition concerning the act of cloning human beings (question of parentage not defined)
• South African scientists plan to clone humans
• Germany has the strictest rules against human cloning (due to the cruel research of the Nazis)