Tim wrote:

...work on cloning is an exercise I'll leave for ... lawyers in Texas.

Odds are excellent that they are at least several years away from actually attempting a human cloning. It's the groundwork, the precursor knowledge, that the government is now cracking down on. A very disturbing trend.

Sounds like a fertility researcher's work ON MICE has been sensationalized into a lesbian-couple-cloning issue. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,2323873%255E11610,00.html Babies: no men needed By ANNA PATTY 12jul01 MEN may no longer be needed for human reproduction as a result of Australian research. Researchers from Monash University have developed a method of fertilising an egg using cells from any part of a body  regardless of whether the body is male or female. Theoretically, it means that lesbian couples could reproduce without any need for male sperm. ... The technique has been used to fertilise a normal mouse egg by using a cell taken from the body of another mouse. ... A spokeswoman for Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams said proposed legislation to allow States to override sexual discrimination laws  enabling them to prevent lesbian couples from participating in IVF treatment  was before the Senate. But Senator Brian Harradine said the Monash research was nothing short of cloning. "The Monash researchers are engaging in asexual reproduction," he said. "These scientists are driven by the technological imperative  if it can be done it should be done." [...] ~Aimee "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want."