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Members of Congress said they felt "humbled" last week as they rose to debate the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, and that was an entirely appropriate response to their assignment. The goal was simple: stop anyone from trying to clone a human, a prospect that strikes just about everyone as medically...
The cloning vote landed right in the middle of the Summer of Science, in which politicians, reporters and a President have all gone back to school for a refresher course in cellular biology. This was political science at its most scientific--and its most political. It is no accident that...
Both bills before the House promised to outlaw "reproductive cloning," i.e., cloning to create a baby. But lawmakers had to decide what price they would pay to make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of...
But even some pro-life lawmakers don't want fears about cloning to stop other kinds of stem-cell research that do not entail the manufacture of new embryos. Many have been relying on a kind of moral escape hatch: the fact that every year there are tens of thousands...
For lawmakers like Wu, who support embryonic-stem-cell research as long as it does not involve intentionally manufacturing embryos, this was an important place to draw the line. It's fine to pursue cloning technology with animals or adult DNA and tissue cultures, but not to create embryos for...