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But those who favor research also latched onto the Virginia and Massachusetts news to push their position. If the pro-lifers were saying "See, we told you the stem-cell scientists were cloning monsters," the pro-research folks seemed to be answering that government regulation is the only way to...
The other reassurance my side had been giving is that stem-cell research is not about cloning. A day after the news from Norfolk we learned that a laboratory in Worcester, Mass. (the very same lab that three years ago produced a hybrid human-cow embryo) is trying to grow...
But if we do decide to give society's imprimatur to stem-cell research, it must be with open eyes and a troubled conscience. These new disclosures of human cloning and the creation of embryos for their deliberate destruction are well-timed reminders of how easily moral barriers can be...
Usually I'm a sucker for the slippery-slope argument. On cloning, I'm in favor of ending it now before we have three grandmothers at Thanksgiving dinner, all faintly resembling Martha Stewart. On privacy, you don't have to be Ray Bradbury to be concerned that soon every membrane...
The report shows in a nutshell the danger of resolving ethical questions by a democratic process. If considered thought can provide a clear answer to the “issues” posed by cloning, then why not start thinking and damn the majority? And if it can?...