1.   Many hated the idea, including President Clinton of the United States who called for a worldwide moratorium on all cloning research.

2.   The United States has forbidden the use of federal funds for human cloning research.

3.   And animals are still dying, or experiencing dire difficulties, as cloning research continues.

4.   Another Ehlers bill would ban all cloning research, but has been criticized by scientists who say it would devastate the entire field of cloning research.

5.   Anti-abortion groups, including the National Right to Life Committee, are lobbying to ban forever any cloning research that could produce human embryos.

6.   Bond also announced last month he will press for an emergency ban on privately funded cloning research.

7.   A bill sponsored by Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., would permanently ban federal funding for human cloning research.

8.   But she said medical cloning research would actually hurt spinal cord injury victims in the long run if embryos were discarded after cells were harvested.

9.   By preventing cloning research, opponents are preventing the development of new treatments that draw upon cloning techniques, and hence are allowing many people to suffer unnecessarily.

10.   Cloning research had fallen out of vogue, and few businesses showed any interest in starting such an enterprise.