Word: bans
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...biggest issues being debated since a scientist successfully cloned a sheep is human cloning. People have been pondering whether cloning human beings is ethical, and, recently, President Clinton placed a ban on further experiments involving human cloning. "Human life is sacred, "he declared. Of course it is. It baffles me that there is so little respect for individual life that people are challenging Clinton's ban...
...since so many deformed and unviable clones would be produced in order to succeed. Comparing the eager bipartisan opposition to human cloning research to the 17th Century persecution of Galileo for his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, Harkin said it was wrong of President Clinton to ban all such research, and wrong of Senator Chris Bond to propose legislation making the ban permanent. Freedom of inquiry is too precious to quash out of simple fear of the profound uncertainties inherent in duplicating human beings, Harkin riposted: "Human cloning will take place, and it will take place...
...problem with politics is not that there's too much money, but rather that there' s too little. They favor lifting all restrictions on spending coupled with fuller and faster disclosure rules. The two views are the extremes; in the middle is the McCain-Feingold bill, which would ban soft money contributions, but does little to ad dress the probability that donors would simply find another way to give...
Whether they will or not is impossible to say. Even if governments ban human cloning outright, it will not be so easy to police what goes on in private laboratories that don't receive public money--or in pirate ones offshore. Years ago, Scottish scientists studying in vitro fertilization were subjected to such intense criticism that they took their work underground, continuing it in seclusion until they had the technology perfected. Presumably, human-cloning researchers could also do their work on the sly, emerging only when they succeed...
DIEHARD MARYLAND REBELS A federal judge lifts the state's ban on license plates that fly the Confederate battle flag...