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In the midst of media attention and upcoming Senate debates on human cloning, President Bush has named two Harvard professors to a committee to investigate bioethics issues and inform upcoming decisions.
Bush previously announced his support for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
Kass, a professor at the University of Chicago and fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, said he envisions the council addressing issues such as human cloning from a more philosophical and intellectual—rather than political—perspective.
The complexities of the bioethical issues surrounding cloning were a focus of the council’s first meeting.
“One of the hard questions that arises concerns the distinction between reproductive cloning (to make babies) and therapeutic cloning (for medical research or to remedy disease). Some people oppose both, while others see a moral distinction between them,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail...