Women: Between Abortion, Cloning and Prostitution
Another Battle at the UN
By Marie and Joseph Meaney
The United Nations made a highly significant pro-life move on March 8, 2005. The United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning calls on all member states to “prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.”
The UN General Assembly approved the measure by a vote of 84 countries in favor vs. 34 against. In a typical example of UN inefficiency, at least five nations who had expressed their desire to vote for the ban did not manage to arrive on time to vote; despite our best efforts to mobilize their participation, 37 others chose to abstain even though many were in favor of the ban on cloning. The UN declaration concluded four years of hard work by pro-lifers and especially by the government of Costa Rica to have a universal call to ban human cloning.