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This was a fake year, a retro year, a year when new ideas were kicked to the curb like some dorky futuristic scooter. If someone came to you 10 years ago and told you that one of the biggest U.S. news stories in 2002 would be a big-time politician...
In his lecture, Sandel used the approach of moral analogy, asking, “How does a stem cell cloning stand morally when compared to several analogous practices?”
Methods of producing human embryos for research, including cloning and in vitro fertilization (IVF), have been the focus of political debate after the Bush administration restricted research from using federal funds for some types of research.
A Senate panel later agreed to a ban on reproductive cloning—cloning solely for the purpose of producing offspring—in August of last year.
“This leads to the controversial issue of whether we can ban reproductive cloning without at the same time taking up the issue of banning therapeutic or research cloning,” said Sandel in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government.