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While a cloning ban may be delayed in the U.S. Senate, emergency legislation in the United Kingdom has gained the backing of peers in the House of Lords. Other countries are also considering bans.

Recent columns and editorials on cloning include:

Ban cloning, not stem-cell research — James C. Greenwood, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Nov. 28, 2001)

Cloning's Embryonic Ethics — Christian Science Monitor (Nov. 27, 2001)

The cloning genie is out of the bottle — The Boston Herald (Nov. 27, 2001)

Don't mix science and religion — Joan Ryan, The San Francisco Chronicle (Nov. 27, 2001)

Cloning to save lives — The Boston Globe (Nov. 27, 2001)

Cloning Panic — The Washington Post (Nov. 27, 2001)

Science and ethics at odds? — The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Nov. 27, 2001)

Stem cells and cloning — The Chicago Tribune (Nov. 27, 2001)

Yahoo's full coverage has current news articles and opinion pieces on human cloning.

For explanations on how cloning is accomplished, see Conceiving a Clone, Science Matters, and How Cloning Works.

Recent Christianity Today articles on cloning and bioethics include:

The New Tyranny | Biotechnology threatens to turn humanity into raw material. (Oct. 5, 2001)

Gen-Etiquette | Scientists may be mapping the genome, but it will be up to us to determine where the map will lead. (Oct. 4, 2001)

Manipulating the Linguistic Code | Religious language falling into the hands of scientists can be a fearful thing. (Oct. 4, 2001)

Times Fifty | Can a clone be an individual? A short story. (Oct. 2, 2001)

The Genome Doctor | The director of the National Human Genome Research Institute answers questions about the morality of his work. (Oct. 1, 2001)

Wanna Buy a Bioethicist? (Editorial) | Some corporations have discovered that bioethics makes good public relations. (Sept. 28, 2001)

Two Cheers | President Bush's stem-cell decision is better than the fatal cure many sought. (August 10, 2001)

House Backs Human Cloning Ban | Scientists say they'll go ahead anyway. (August 27, 2001)

Embryos Split Prolifers | Bush decision pleases some, keeps door open for disputed research. (August 27, 2001)

House of Lords Legalizes Human Embryo Cloning | Religious leaders' protests go unheeded by lawmakers. (Feb. 2, 2001)

Britain Debates Cloning of Human Embryos | Scientists want steady stream of stem cells for "therapeutic" purposes. (Nov. 22, 2000)

Tissue of Lies? | Latest stem-cell research shows no urgent need to destroy human embryos for the cause of science. (Sept. 28, 2000)

Beyond the Impasse to What? | Stem-cell research may not need human embryos after all. But why are we researching in the first place? (Aug. 18, 2000)

Thus Spoke Superman | Troubling language frames the stem-cell debate. (June 13, 2000)

New Stem-Cell Research Guidelines Criticized | NIH guidelines skirt ethical issues about embryo destruction, charge bioethicists. (Feb. 7, 2000)

Human Embryo Research Resisted (August 9, 1999)

Editorial: The Biotech Temptation (July 12, 1999)

Embryo Research Contested (May 24, 1999)

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