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Members said the council’s first task is to address the issue of human cloning, as the Senate prepares to debate the issue in March.
The council will report to Bush, and may issue opinions and recommendations. Leon R. Kass, who heads the council, said members would testify in upcoming Senate hearings on human cloning if called upon to do so.
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.
The council, whose members were officially announced Jan. 16, will consider various issues in bioethics, such as those related to embryo and stem cell research, assisted reproduction, cloning, end-of-life issues and the uses of knowledge and techniques derived from human genetics and the neurosciences.
Nobody cloned a human last year (at least so far as we know), but a Massachusetts biotech firm managed to create a stir nonetheless just by making a six-celled embryo from a human cell. The goal was to achieve what the company called therapeutic cloning, by which cells are...