X-Message-Number: 22780 Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:12:07 -0800 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Simply incredible While the US president talks out the side of his two faces regarding theocratic stymying of progress in the mostly islamic middle east, it is Iran that initiates, if I read this correctly, a motion to postpone the US insisted UN ban on all forms of human cloning. [begin quoted material] U.N. Delays Considering Human Cloning Ban UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations voted narrowly Thursday to delay for two years any consideration of a treaty to ban human cloning, an issue that has left the world body bitterly divided. Facing rival resolutions on a total ban or a partial ban, the General Assembly's legal committee voted 80-79 to accept a motion introduced by Iran on behalf of the 57 Islamic nations to postpone U.N. action on the issue. Fifteen countries abstained. The close vote reflected the deep division in the 191-nation General Assembly on the cloning issue. Costa Rica and the United States had lobbied intensively for a vote on a resolution that would have established a working group to start drafting a treaty to ban all forms of human cloning. That resolution was co-sponsored by about 50 countries. A rival resolution introduced by Belgium called for a ban only on the cloning of babies, leaving the question of human cloning for research and medical experiments to individual countries. It was co-sponsored by 13 other countries including Britain, China, Singapore and Japan and supported by France, Germany and other nations. [end quoted material] Will wonders never cease? James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen mystical agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22780