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The arguments on each side have been fierce. Cloning will end our humanity, say one bill’s supporters; it will eliminate individuality and identity; it will turn children from welcomed gifts to parent-designed projects; it will bring back the eugenic program of the Nazis. In tones perhaps...
A second faction, meanwhile, seeks an exemption for the cloning of embryos in the laboratory. They honor the march of science; they cite the potential advantages of embryonic stem cells created through cloning to treat diseases from Parkinson’s to diabetes. There’s something profoundly icky...
Even deep Constitutional principles are dragged into the debate. Is cloning interstate commerce? Does it fit under the umbrella of privacy that shelters birth control and abortion? If Americans have a basic right to make their own reproductive choices free from government control, then wouldn’t techniques to...
As the cloning bills are debated, it becomes clear that the process isn’t working. The problem isn’t so much that politicians don’t understand “blastocysts” or “somatic cell nuclear transfer”; the concepts...
The problem lies also in a confused view of bioethics. In its 1999 report on the use of embryos for stem cell research, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (a body convened to advise the president) issued a report symptomatic of the cloning debate’s flaws. In discussing the...