Critics slam new cloning research

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists' assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research. The research "will lead inexorably to cloning to produce a live born child," said bioethicist O. Carter Snead, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic University in Indiana. The new study used techniques similar to those that created Dolly, the cloned sheep, in Scotland in 1996. …