From: hal@finney.org
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 13:11:26 MDT
Eugene forwards from
> http://newsreal.yellowbrix.com/pages/newsreal/Story.nsp?story_id=22959526&ID=newsreal&scategory=Internet
>
> The only way to cope with all this is to embrace the positive effects
> - using embryos to overcome infertility as well as to coax cures for
> Alzheimer's and diabetes - and to criminalize such acts of despotism
> as "reproductive cloning," which is growing copies of people.
> ...
> The last thing we need is for biomedical researchers such as Zavos to
> operate in secret and in other countries, without criteria or
> regulations.
>
> Unfortunately, the only way to do that is for the federal government
> to fund the research and to fund it at levels substantially higher
> than President Bush proposed last week when he proposed that we limit
> federally funded research to the 60 stem-cell lines in existence.
I'm confused by the apparent contradiction here. The article says
that the "only way to cope" with cloning is to criminalize it. Then it
turns around and seems to say that the federal government should fund
cloning research? Am I reading this wrong? Perhaps an editing problem?
What exactly is the writer trying to say should be done in terms of
cloning policy?
Hal
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