Washington, with backing from the U.S. anti-abortion movement, tried to push a resolution through a U.N committee on Thursday for the drafting of a treaty that would ban both the cloning of human beings and so-called "therapeutic" cloning, in which human cells are cloned for medical research.
-- Reuters
Amazing. Bad enough they want to ban stem cell research within our own country, but now they want to ban it everywhere?
The resolution didn't pass. The vote to block it , though, was surprisingy close -- 80 to 79 with 15 abstentions.