IP: Twins now outlawed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:52:21 -0700
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Stewart Brand <sb () gbn org>
>
>
> Hi Dave.  Nice dinner the other night.
>
> The House banning of human cloning (news sample below) will open up 
> fertility clinics to indictment, because the sundry fertility techniques 
> have led to vast new quantities of twins and triplets, each one of them a 
> technically induced human clone intended for birth.  The docs face $1 
> million minimum fines with this law.  What about the eager parents?
>
> (Some cultures, I'm told,  kill twins upon birth; others semi-worship them.)
>
>
> THE REPUBLICAN-controlled House voted 265-162 in favor of the measure that 
> would set fines of $1 million or more and up to 10 years in prison for 
> violators.
>       Earlier, the lawmakers also said no to even limited human cloning 
> for research into possible cures for Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's and other 
> fatal or disabling diseases.
>       A ban on all human cloning has also been introduced in the Senate 
> by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. And Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of 
> South Dakota said Tuesday he was "opposed to the effort to clone under 
> virtually any circumstances."



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