Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the uses envisioned for cloning are not particularly farfetched compared with things that are already happening. A few years ago, a California couple made a remarkable decision when faced with the news that their daughter was dying of leukemia. The father braved a vasectomy reversal and the mother...
Most people seemed to respond to the idea of human cloning at a more fundamental level. In the TIME/CNN poll, 58% said they thought cloning was morally wrong, while 63% said they believed it was against God's will. "It's not that anyone thinks there is a commandment 'Thou...
German officials were quick to point out that the experiment Hall and Stillman conducted -- cloning a human embryo -- would be considered a federal offense in Germany, punishable by up to five years in prison. "The Americans do not even have our scruples," complained Rudolf Dressler, deputy whip of the Social...
Sensing a shift in the regulatory wind, many reproductive scientists wished aloud that the cloning issue had never been raised -- or at least not in this way. "((Hall and Stillman)) haven't done science or medicine any favors," said Dr. Marilyn Monk, a researcher at London's Institute of Child...
But that stance may not be adequate in the years to come, as genetic engineering and cloning begin to converge. It is becoming increasingly apparent to the researchers exploring these frontiers that they have to become ethicists as well as scientists. Technology tends to develop a momentum of its own...