The European Parliament overwhelmingly called for an explicit world-wide ban on human cloning

Date: 13/03/1997

this week. The demand won the backing of 457 members and was opposed by just six, with 25 abstentions. As the public controversy rages over the cloned Scottish sheep Dolly, MEPs urged the European Commission to table EU-wide legislation to regulate animal cloning. They also asked the Union's ethics committee to assess the ethical aspects of applying gene technology.