Sacramento -- State lawmakers Tuesday turned away a bill that could have brought a first-in-the-nation ban on pet cloning, moved less by a host of scientific and ethical arguments than by photos of wide-eyed, copy-cat kittens.
The 4-2 vote against the bill with four abstentions by members of Assembly Business and Professions Committee on AB1428 by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, came after a brief discussion that touched on everything from free enterprise to mad science -- all triggered largely by a pioneering Bay Area firm's willingness to replicate pet owners' favorite cat or dog.
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