Law to ban human cloning
19/08/2004 22:36  - (SA)  

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Ministers oppose baby cloning Cloned babies 'illegal in SA' SA woman 'pregnant with clone'

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Cape Town - National health legislation, due to be signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki, will prohibit the manipulation of any human genetic material for the purpose of reproductive cloning.

At a briefing on the National Health Bill, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said the legislation did permit her to allow "therapeutic cloning, using adult or umbilical cord stem cells under prescribed conditions."

"Research on stems cells and zygotes, which are not more than 14 days old, may be conducted with the permission of the minister and on certain conditions," she told journalists.

"We are still busy drafting regulations to deal with the complex subject of human cloning and organ transplant, as well as the migration of some regulations from the Tissue Act to this act," she said.

"This is going to take a bit of time; we foresee that this section (of the bill) will be implemented about the middle of next year."

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