Britain allows therapeutic cloning, which uses stem cells from embryos to create genetic material to treat disease.

Three years ago, Britain became the first country to allow therapeutic cloning; Newcastle has won the country's first license.

At the same time, they could allow biomedical cloning to go forward.

Passage followed the defeat of a less restrictive alternative that would have banned reproductive cloning but allowed cloning for research.

He was among the first Islamic clerics to allow stem cell research and therapeutic cloning.

Abbott opposed allowing the introduction of embryonic stem cell research or therapeutic cloning in another conscience vote.

"Legal experts say this bill would allow cloning."

Per this stance, he vetoed a Massachusetts bill to fund stem-cell research because the legislation allowed such cloning of human embryos.

It says that allowing therapeutic cloning by nuclear transfer gives rise to many ethical problems.

Given that, we cannot allow cloning, for whatever purpose, neither reproductive nor therapeutic.