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Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

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Leon Kass
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: February 2
Physician
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Chicago
Illinois
Leon Richard Kass
Leon R. Kass
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Cloning
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