WASHINGTON — The National Council of Churches has signed an agreement with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) to work together to address the ethical and moral issues surrounding biotech. The NCC represents 36 mainline Protestant and Orthodox churches, and the biotech group represents about 1,000 research, development and manufacturing companies in the $200 billion biotechnology sector.
The two groups signed an agreement promising to cultivate “an active and informed debate” on biotechnology pledged “unequivocal opposition to human reproductive cloning” but remained silent on cloning for research purposes.
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