Fwd:clonazione umana - posizione del giappone - uno spunto?

["Alessandro Gimona" <agimona@hotmail.com>]

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>JAPAN PROPOSES MAKING HUMAN CLONING A CRIME
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>TOKYO, Japan, March 7, 2000 (The Associate Press)
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>  The government's science arm, worried about the
>threat of human cloning "to the maintenance of social
>order," has drafted legislation making the act a crime
>that could land offenders in prison. The Science and
>Technology Agency wants to outlaw the introduction of
>cloned human embryos into the womb for reproductive
>purposes as well as the creation of hybrid embryos
>with human and animal genes, agency official Kimihiko
>Oda said Tuesday.
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>  The legislation, presented Monday and likely to
>go before the lower house of parliament this month,
>could allow the cloning of human embryos for research
>purposes within strict limits, he said.
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>  Offenders will likely be subject to prison sentences
>of three to seven years, several Japanese newspapers
>reported Monday, citing unidentified sources at the
>agency.
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>  Two years ago, 19 European nations, including France
>and Italy, signed the first international treaty to
>prohibit efforts "to create human beings genetically
>identical to another human being, whether living or
>dead."
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