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...ban on selling soda on campus will not improve the dietary habits of these Los Angeles students. Granted, the school board’s concern about the health of students is necessary. The proponents of this ban seek to battle the ever-increasing obesity epidemic, which involves many of our nation’s children, and is estimated to effect or threaten some 40 percent of Los Angeles’ children. However this move to ban soda is, on its own, too simple—the best remedy to help these students must involve a drastic change in diet education...
...attention given to the Los Angeles school board’s move has prompted many other school districts around the nation to consider a similar ban. The Los Angeles school district is the second largest in the United States and its move to ban soda without other educational reforms has set an irresponsible example for these other districts to follow. Instead of just emulating Los Angeles, other school districts that seek improved health for their students must recognize the limited effect of the ban and consequently enact a plan to actually address health problems...
...inserting it into an unfertilized egg to grow a new animal (human or otherwise). Even the cells that slough off your gums when you brush your teeth could be used to make a whole new person. Of course, the most virulent opponents of cloning will not soon want to ban tooth-brushing. But they insist that the potential for life must be protected and oppose cloning human embryos for research purposes, even if the DNA comes not from a sperm and an egg but from an everyday skin cell. The potential for life found in normal skin cells, however...
...President’s Council of Bioethics ran into this very problem last July in considering a ban on cloning. Opponents of cloning for research (and not reproductive) purposes prevailed in persuading a majority of members to vote to recommend a four-year moratorium on the practice. The decision to support a moratorium rather than an outright ban was seen as a strategic decision by the more conservative members who knew that a ban would be harder to stomach. As council member and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel observed, “To accept a moratorium rather than...
...Sandel pointed out, the principled position that holds the potential for human life—such as an embryo—to have the same moral status as a person makes an outright ban on research cloning the only logical option. By voting for a moratorium, the members of the committee sidestepped the crucial issues surrounding the potential for life. If the cloning opponents had been consistent, they would have called for a moratorium on tooth brushing as well...