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...potential for life found in normal skin cells, however, is of less concern. This inconsistency shows the difficulty of maintaining that the potential for human life should be treated with the same respect as a full-grown person. The opponents of research cloning are scrambling up a slippery slope...
...scientists (all of whom on the committee voted to allow cloning research) win back the trust politicians and avoid being remembered (or mis-remembered) in history as the mistreated Leeuwenhoeks of the cloning debate? They need to make the opponents of cloning face up to slippery slope on which they rest their arguments. By selectively maintaining that the potential for human life deserves protection, opponents of cloning take a principled position that is ultimately impractical. Thus, scientists should argue that the threshold for human life is much higher than a few cells in a dish. The possible medical benefits...
...days later, I was scrabbling up a steep scree slope to get a closer look at Koofai Nuamuri, the turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...
...Charles Krauthammer for having the courage to call for a stop to human cloning of any kind [VIEWPOINT, June 24]. More and more people are being seduced by the idea that human cloning will bring health discoveries that will cure many significant illnesses. Perhaps so, but what a slippery slope to descend! FRANCES VANDERSCHAAF Vista, Calif...
...peacekeepers. Until it gets its way, the Administration is holding up renewal of the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Bosnia. Europeans say the U.S. could protect its interests by signing the treaty while negotiating exemptions. Washington says that a signature would be the first step on a slippery slope; once it had conceded that Americans could be subject to the court's jurisdiction, the way would be open for a foreign prosecutor to frivolously accuse a U.S. soldier (or Defense Secretary, for that matter) of war crimes. Europeans say safeguards prevent such an eventuality. (The ICC, for example, is meant...