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...make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose and punish violators with 10 years in jail and a $1 million fine. The alternative amendment, introduced by Republican Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious stem cells that can be derived from them. Shut that research down, argue the scientists, and the most promising frontier in medicine is suddenly off limits...
...their souls. Others called it a travesty to debate for only three hours a bill that was rushed to the floor by conservative leaders who were looking to slow the momentum that has been building for the funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. "It's just Republican Leadership 101," Greenwood told TIME after his amendment was defeated. "Their basic theory of politics has always been stroking the base rather than courting the centrists." Still others considered it meaningless: Senate majority leader Tom Daschle indicated that no such bill would come to a vote in the Senate, which meant House members...
...best to balance protecting human life against relieving human suffering. Supporters of the tight Weldon ban warned of embryo farms and headless humans cloned to harvest their organs. "Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation," declared Tom DeLay. Those favoring Greenwood's more liberal guidelines warned of America becoming a theocracy, where a minority's conviction could block research to benefit millions. "If your religious beliefs will not let you accept a cure for your child's cancer, so be it," argued California Democrat Zoe Lofgren. "But do not expect...
...create an embryo solely for the purpose of harvesting its cells, which can occur in some types of therapeutic cloning. That is the guideline stem-cell proponents are urging Bush to embrace and the one that made it impossible for many moderates, as well as conservatives, to accept the Greenwood proposal, which would violate...
...also about the limits of law. What good is a partial ban on cloning if it cannot be enforced? Once embryos are produced for research and stockpiled in labs, lawmakers warned, it's hard to control how they are used. Even under Greenwood, which would subject private labs to some government oversight, there would be no knowing for certain whether scientists were violating the law against actually implanting a cloned embryo in a surrogate mother. And if someone found out? "No government agency is going to compel a woman to abort the clone," argued University of Chicago medical ethicist Leon...