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University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote a letter late this winter urging Harvard alumni senators to vote against the Brownback bill which would impose prison sentences and huge fines for scientists who use cloning techniques central to stem cell research.
“Everyone recognizes the danger, both for the potential clones and for the mothers, posed by reproductive cloning,” said Associate Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Jane H. Corlette.
He encouraged senators to support two alternatives bills—one sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-Ca.) the other by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)—that would ban reproductive cloning but allow somatic transfer techniques to be used for ?...
According to Tony Mazzaschi, associate vice president of the Association of American Medical Colleges and a member of CAMR’s board of directors, the coalition is running print and radio advertisements to raise the public’s awareness of the benefits offered by therapeutic cloning techniques.
This is not the first attempt by Congress to ban human cloning, nor is it the first time the University has vocally opposed the legislation. Harvard, along with a smaller coalition, opposed a similar bill that was ultimately defeated in the Senate in 1998.