U.S. Backs U.N. Clone Ban

The United States, which had no use for the United Nations when comes to making war, finds that international institution very useful as a forum for establishing a global ban on all types of human cloning, including research aimed to producing transplantable embryonic stem cells. By the way, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report two years ago that found that as many as 100 million Americans could one day benefit from adult and embryonic stem cell treatments.