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Human Genome News, January-June 1997; 8:(3-4)
Acting on a recommendation by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), President Clinton announced on June 9 that he will send Congress a bill to outlaw the cloning of humans. Biomedical and agricultural research that could develop new medical therapies would be unaffected. Prompted by the cloning of the lamb "Dolly" in a U.K. laboratory, NBAC's report noted that attempting to clone a human would be premature and unacceptably risky.
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