Anti-abortion activists call for cloning ban
By The Associated Press
Anti-abortion activists in the state on Tuesday threw their weight behind a legislative bill that would ban human cloning.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center currently doesn’t clone human embryos for reproductive purposes or to harvest stem cells for research on how to cure diseases, and there is a universitywide policy against doing so. That policy has the same provisions as the proposed ban introduced to the Legislature.
But Greg Schleppenbach of the Nebraska Catholic Conference said during a Capitol news conference that a statutory ban is needed to prevent the practice in the future.
The bill (LB700) that would ban human cloning for both research and reproductive purposes was introduced by Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial and has not yet been debated by the Legislature.
A majority of state senators co-signed the bill, an indication that passage is likely.

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