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Chirac opposes therapeutic cloning

February 8, 2001 8:00 AM UTC

French President Jacques Chirac announced his personal opposition to therapeutic cloning on Thursday. Seen by political observers as a political shot across the bow of the ruling socialist government, the rightist president used his address at the opening of the BioVision biotechnology meeting in Lyon, France to condemn the U.K. decision to allow therapeutic cloning, as he believes this could open the door to reproductive cloning. ...