At the same time that the UN was debating cloning, UNESCO was developing a Universal Declaration on Bioethics that attempts to outline some practical expressions of a principle of social responsibility. Justice Michael Kirby, chair of the IBC drafting committee stated that, “Except in relatively few developed countries, the real urgencies of contemporary bioethics include access to healthcare, to adequate nutrition and drinkable water, to the reduction of poverty and illiteracy, the improvement of living conditions and the elimination of unjust marginalization of individuals and groups.”50 Concern that access to any eventual benefi cial scientifi c developments arising from human cloning.
