CLONING BABIES IN THE UK - THEY CANNOT CLONE PEOPLE? WHO TOLD YOU THAT?

CLONING BABIES IN THE UK - THEY CANNOT CLONE PEOPLE? WHO TOLD YOU THAT? Human cloning licensed in UK. The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted its first licence for therapeutic cloning of human cells, three years after the UK became the first country in the world to permit the regulation of the technique. The HFEA was set up in August 1991 as part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA's principal tasks are to license and monitor clinics that carry out in vitro fertilisation, donor insemination and human embryo research. The HFEA also regulates the storage of gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos. Cloning involves the manufacture of a new kind of human being ... with the express purpose of destroying it once its stem cells are removed," Professor Jack Scarisbrick, chairman of the group Life, told Reuters. "It is the manipulation, exploitation and trivialisation of human life of a most frightening kind".