Quite interesting...A COALITION of patients and researchers have joined a Liberal backbencher's call for the Government to trigger a conscience vote on the future of therapeutic cloning in Australia.
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It said a recent Roy Morgan Poll showed 80 per cent of Australians supported therapeutic cloning.
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"For a cabinet holding some extreme minority to view to impose that position on the rest of the population is totally unjustified," he said.
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Dr Washer said it was "total, utter, psychotic rubbish" that a life form at the point of fertilisation had the same rights as a human because it was impossible to differentiate between placenta and human tissue for 14 days.
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Meanwhile, the Victorian and Queensland premiers today stepped up their call for a broadening of stem cell research, saying they might go it alone without federal backing.
I do hope progress is made towards better medical understanding of stem cells and the possible benefits to the science.
(I'd rather not have the whole debate again, but it is an interesting piece of news none the less)