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“Reports of human cloning experiments undertaken in South Korea underscore the need for a comprehensive national and international ban on all human cloning.” U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, said in a statement. “Human cloning is wrong. It treats the youngest of humans as mere property and should be banned.”

Some ethicists agreed. “Controversy continues to swirl around killing even long-abandoned human embryos for research”. John Kilner. President of the Chicago-based Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, told Reuters. “The South Korean experiment disturbingly goes significantly further. It produces human embryos for the explicit purpose of fatally mining them to obtain bodily materials for experimental purposes.”

However, groups calling for cures for specific diseases disagree, arguing that human embryos are destroyed daily in fertility clinics, in abortions and in natural miscarriages.

51. The main idea of the text is

[A] South Korea has made a new breakthrough in cloning technology.

[B]clone report by South Korean scientists sparks fresh debate.

[C] South Korea’s research in human cloning meets oppositions of other countries.

[D] Advances in stem-cell technology make it possible to apply cloning in actual therapies.

52. Arthur Kaplan implies that

[A] cloning can be used as a possible treatment for crippling illnesses.

[B]no life should be destroyed in order to benefit other people.

[C] human cloning and therapeutic cloning should be differentiated when making policy.

[D] all cloning experiments should be banned around the world.

53. Which of the following statements is not true?

[A] The US House of Representatives agreed to ban human cloning,

[B]The US Senate disapproved a ban on cloning for research purposes.