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Bush will appoint doctors, lawyers and ethicists to a panel on bioethics to advise him on stem cells, cloning and other ethical quagmires of the brave new world. Dr. Leon Kass, who helped Bush make this decision, will lead the council.
--THE EFFECT Bush has ruled out funding for research, and the House passed a bill banning all cloning procedures.
Conservatives were heartened last week when President Bush appointed Dr. Leon Kass, an eminent University of Chicago bioethicist, to head an advisory panel on stem-cell research. Kass's visibility was already on the rise. He'd been morphing from political thinker to political player, largely because of his passionate...
While Kass has made his views against cloning well known--simply put, he believes it robs us of our humanity--he has been more opaque on the issue of stem cells. "I regard it as a deeply vexing and serious moral question," he told the New York Times. Daniel Callahan...
By contrast, two other groups chose a more provocative path. In July of this year, the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., made headlines by announcing that it had created embryos (from donated sperm and eggs) expressly to extract their stem cells. A few days later, a Massachusetts...