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...consultation on the subject, Bush did not talk much with members of Congress. Even Senator Frist did not have an in-depth talk with Bush after Frist floated his own compromise. "He was searching more for moral authority than political counsel," says Senator Sam Brownback, the Kansas Republican who opposes funding...
While Kass has made his views against cloning well known--simply put, he believes it robs us of our humanity--he has been more opaque on the issue of stem cells. "I regard it as a deeply vexing and serious moral question," he told the New York Times. Daniel Callahan, a colleague who attended the July Oval Office meeting, says he does not recall Kass's coming down one way or the other. "He seemed somewhat ambivalent on the topic," says Callahan. In one of his anticloning articles, however, Kass appears to oppose embryonic research in general. "By pouring...
...rule is just an attempt by lawyers to protect themselves legally, but in fact they may be better off under the old rule: if you are prohibited from blowing the whistle, no one can blame you if you don't. What the new rules offer lawyers is a moral opportunity to sound the alarm about clients bent on doing harm--and of course, an opportunity for good publicity...
...Thomson was ready to try human cells, but first he asked himself searching questions that endocrinologist James Prihoda, his college roommate, sees as a sign of his deep "respect for life and strong feeling that there is a purpose to it." Is this research ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned...
...Bush tried as he pondered the research spearheaded by one of America's pioneering scientists. Biologist James Thomson's wizardry with embryonic stem cells had not only raised hopes for a medical panacea but also set off the national debate on whether that potential public good provided the moral justification for the infusion of public money over the objection of many. Already, Thomson's personal balancing act--juggling scientific imperative and ethical caution, technical brilliance and moral quandary--had made him one of our choices for TIME's list of America's Best in science and medicine, the second...