THE Harris Bill to allow human cloning for research purposes has recently been defeated in the House of Commons.

The government has, however, made clear its intention and wish to make Britain the first country in the world to legalise the farming of this horrific practice.

Rasjid Skinner, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Pendle (Letters, September 25) has made clear apart from the moral argument against farming and killing human embryos, there is no medical justification for the proposed practice.

Research into the use of drugs and adult cell transplants to grow stem cells is already well advanced.

All those with a respect for human life and a distaste for the Frankenstein world into which some of our politicians are leading us, should write to their MPs expressing their view.

For the information of your readers, Gordon Prentice (Pendle) voted in favour of human cloning, Peter Pike (Burnley) abstained.

MR D NEWTON, (Chairman, Burnley and Pendle branch, Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child), Cleaver Street, Burnley.