From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 01:32:25 MST
Giu1i0 Pri5c0 informs
New on Transhumanity (http://transhumanism.com)
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> Cloning As A Valid Reproductive Choice, by James Hughes, November 16, 2002.
> This past spring, the Bush administration and pro-life Republicans in the
> United States Congress killed legislation that would have banned
> reproductive cloning - cloning to make babies - by insisting that
> the bills also ban cloning for research purposes.
Hey, hey, hey! Maybe the Republicans are on our side after all!
> Now the Bush administration, the Vatican and bloc of Catholic countries
> have killed a treaty
Way to go!!
> at the United Nations to ban reproductive cloning. Again, the Bush
> and his fundamentalist allies want the treaty to go further to include
> banning any use of embryo cloning, which the Franco-German U.N.
> committee will not agree to.
Okay, now that the great minds in the White House have
shown us the way, all Extropians and their allies must
immediately support bans not only on cloning, but on
all "disturbing" medical research, especially anything
that might lead to improvement in the human condition!
"One step backward, two steps forward", as the old
Marxist slogan had it.
Lee
> Although I don't agree with the Bush and Vatican reasons
> for opposing the cloning bans, I welcome the fact that they
> are a roadblock in this silly stampede...
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