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UN Backs U.S. Plea for Total Ban on Human Cloning
Tue Mar 8, 2005 01:09 PM ET By Irwin Arieff

"UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday urged governments to ban all human cloning, including the cloning of human embryos for stem-cell research, in a divided vote that handed a symbolic victory to the administration of President Bush."

"The U.N. debate began with a 2001 proposal by France and Germany for a binding global treaty banning the cloning of human beings, a plan that had broad international backing."

Although this ban doesn't seem to be legally binding, it is comforting for once to see The U.N. and other countries you wouldn't expect to step up to the plate and say that this is wrong.