Australia: Vote Against Embryonic Cloning Seen as Sign of Shifting Debate

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
May 08, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - In what could signal a further shift in the global stem cell debate, lawmakers in an Australia state have rejected legislation allow the cloning of human embryos for research purposes.

This week's vote in the Western Australia capital, Perth, is believed to be one of the first times the embryonic cloning issue has been considered by a legislature anywhere in the world since reports of a major research breakthrough last November prompted new questions about the need to use embryos at all. the rest