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IP: Twins now outlawed
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:58:22 -0400
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:52:21 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Stewart Brand <sb () gbn org> Hi Dave. Nice dinner the other night. The House banning of human cloning (news sample below) will open up fertility clinics to indictment, because the sundry fertility techniques have led to vast new quantities of twins and triplets, each one of them a technically induced human clone intended for birth. The docs face $1 million minimum fines with this law. What about the eager parents? (Some cultures, I'm told, kill twins upon birth; others semi-worship them.) THE REPUBLICAN-controlled House voted 265-162 in favor of the measure that would set fines of $1 million or more and up to 10 years in prison for violators. Earlier, the lawmakers also said no to even limited human cloning for research into possible cures for Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and other fatal or disabling diseases. A ban on all human cloning has also been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. And Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said Tuesday he was "opposed to the effort to clone under virtually any circumstances."
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