Kathryn, so the UN has voted to ban human cloning eh? Whatever we may think about human cloning, we should both agree that this really is none of the business of the UN or the ‘international community’ it purports to represent. The US should decide for itself what science it chooses to adopt, reject, or ban. For the UN to get involved is, quite simply, insolence.

To say that the international community has some sort of jurisdiction in this respect makes it far more difficult for the US to reject (with any degree of consistency) the encroachments on national sovereignty represented by Kyoto, the International Criminal ‘court’ or the proposed, and repellent, Law of the Sea Treaty.