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World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N. Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:55 pm (GMT -5) World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N. Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:46pm EST OSLO (Reuters) - The world should quickly ban cloning of humans and only allow exceptions for strictly controlled research to help treat diseases such as diabetes or Alzheimer's, a U.N. study said on Sunday. Without a ban, experts at the U.N. University's Institute of Advanced Studies said that governments would have to prepare legal measures to protect clones from "potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination". "A legally-binding global ban on work to create a human clone, coupled with freedom for nations to permit strictly controlled therapeutic research, has the greatest political viability of options available," the study said. "Whichever path the international community chooses it will have to act soon -- either to prevent reproductive cloning or to defend the human rights of cloned individuals," said A.H. Zakri, head of the Institute, which is based in Yokohama, Japan. Almost all governments oppose human cloning and more than 50 have legislation outlawing cloning. But negotiations about an international ban collapsed in 2005 because of disagreements over research cloning, also known as therapeutic cloning. Research cloning can produce tissues that are a perfect genetic match of a person and so help grow cells to treat diseases such as strokes, spinal injuries, diabetes, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, according to the study, which was made available in Oslo. The United Nations in 2005 agreed a non-binding declaration to ban human cloning but left many ambiguities. "The declaration in itself is not an adequate response," said Brendan Tobin, an author of the study from the National University of Ireland. "This has left us in a situation where maverick scientists can carry on with their research and that is likely to lead to an eventual cloning," he told Reuters. The authors said laws should grant clones full human rights to protect from discrimination. Otherwise, opponents of clones in an inheritance dispute, for instance, might say that a clone and the person from whom their cells were grown should only get a half share each. "In the same way as an identical twin is an individual, a clone would be an individual," Tobin said. The report noted that clones have been made of mice, sheep, pigs, cows and dogs and that U.S. researchers last year achieved the first cloning of a primate -- a rhesus monkey embryo cloned from adult cells and then grown to generate stem cells. It said that national bans on cloning could be skirted since researchers could simply move elsewhere. "Disgraced South Korean medical researcher Woo Sook Hwang, whose human clone claims were unsubstantiated, reportedly continues his work in Thailand," the U.N. study said. (Editing by Giles Elgood) _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

Waiting for approval from on high Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:34 pm (GMT -5) Waiting for approval from on high Ave Maria continues to wait for bishop's blessing to celebrate Mass in oratory By LIAM DILLON Naples Daily News Thursday, November 8, 2007 http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/nov/08/ave_maria_continues_wait_bishops_blessing_celebrat/ There will be no midnight Christmas Mass celebrated in the oratory at Ave Maria. There will be no Mass at all in Ave Maria's oratory until Diocese of Venice Bishop Frank Dewane gives his blessing to the new university's request to have its elaborate 100-foot-tall structure recognized by the official Catholic Church, Ave Maria University President Nick Healy said. Catholic church law requires permission from the local bishop, or other local ordinary, for Mass or other sacred celebrations to take place in an oratory. Healy said the school sent a letter to Dewane more than two months ago formally requesting his approval for Mass to be held in the oratory when construction is completed next month. Healy added discussions about the matter began long before then. The university hasn't received a response from the diocese. "We are patiently and humbly waiting for our bishop to make his decision," Healy said. The university has also invited Dewane to celebrate the oratory's dedicatory Mass now scheduled for Jan. 13. The oratory, located at the center of the new Ave Maria town 35 miles from downtown Naples, remains on schedule to receive its certificate of occupancy from Collier County in December, according to Healy and Don Schrotenboer, Ave Maria's project manager. That means it could hold Christmas Mass inside, but Healy said the school wanted to give Dewane the opportunity to celebrate the oratory's first Mass. "If the bishop wants to do the dedicatory Mass on the first day, then we want to reserve that honor for him," he said. On Christmas, Healy said, the school would likely hold a prayer meeting and sing carols in and around the oratory. Healy said he wasn't sure why the university's request hadn't been fulfilled, especially since Dewane has given permission to hold Mass in the school's temporary chapel in the student union building. The chapel on the school's interim campus in North Naples also received diocesan permission to hold Mass. "I don't know of anything more we need to do," Healy said. The Diocese of Venice, which has jurisdiction over 10 counties in Southwest Florida including Collier and Lee, did not respond to a written list of questions from the Daily News. The lack of recognition for the oratory is the clearest sign yet of tension between Ave Maria and the local Catholic hierarchy. More than three years ago, university officials requested the oratory receive parish church status within the diocese, which would allow for the performance of sacraments such as baptisms and weddings. That request also has gone unanswered. Also the diocese has thus far rejected Ave Maria's claims to be known as a "Catholic university," instead calling it "a private university in the Catholic tradition." Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza and Ave Maria, announced plans for the university surrounded by a new 5,000-acre town also called Ave Maria to come to Collier County in 2002. Dewane, the second bishop in the Diocese of Venice's 23-year history, was installed in July 2006.

Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts' Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:32 pm (GMT -5) Parents win right to grow babies for 'spare parts' From correspondents in London November 11, 2007 12:00am PARENTS of sick children in Britain will be allowed to use IVF to create "spare-part babies" under controversial laws published yesterday. The legislation will dramatically relax rules on IVF clinics creating "saviour siblings" who can help cure their older brothers and sisters of medical conditions such as leukemia. Experts said that one day they could create a "designer baby" with kidneys perfectly compatible with a sibling suffering renal failure. More immediately, saviour siblings could give umbilical cord blood or bone marrow to family members in the hope of treating conditions such as sickle cell anaemia. The Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill will be debated in British Parliament and is expected to become law in 2009. The Daily Mail, in The Sunday Herald Sun _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

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