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...council will report to Bush, and may issue opinions and recommendations. Leon R. Kass, who heads the council, said members would testify in upcoming Senate hearings on human cloning if called upon...
...Kass, a professor at the University of Chicago and fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, said he envisions the council addressing issues such as human cloning from a more philosophical and intellectual—rather than political—perspective...
...developments [in biotechnology] touch the very deepest core of what it means to be a human being. I want to emphasize that in discussing the hot-button issues we want to put these matters in the context of human goods that are precious to defend,” Kass said...
Such a diverse council was made possible in part because Kass valued intellectual diversity over the probability of consensus in recommending people to be council members. Kass was first appointed to the council in August, and he and some other individuals made recommendations to Bush for other council nominees...
...deliberately asked that we not be bound by the need for consensus so the panel would not have to be stacked one way or the other,” Kass said...