When clones are outlawed ...

[Dave Monroe]

... only outlaws will have clones.  Sorry, couldn't
resist (must ... make ... pun).  From Sheryl Gay
Stolberg, "House Backs Ban on Human Cloning for Any
Objective," New York Times, Wednesday, August 1st,
2001 ...

"WASHINGTON, July 31 — After an impassioned debate
that pitted the promise of cures for disease against
the horror of making babies that are genetic replicas
of adults, the House of Representatives voted by a
wide margin today to ban cloning, not only for
reproduction but also for medical research.

[...]

"'The world is waiting for the United States to set
the moral tone against this experimentation,' said
Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Republican
of Wisconsin. 'If scientists are permitted to clone
embryos, we can look forward to embryo farms where
embryos will be stockpiled and mass marketed.'

[so, hey, world, the wait is over now ...]

"'What is unfortunate is that cloning conjures up
these images of Frankenstein and horrible science, and
it is really just a pejorative term for cell therapy,'
said one advocate for patients, who spoke on the
condition that she not be named. 

[...]

"Cloning challenges the conventional wisdom that
embryos must be created from the union of egg and
sperm. And so today's debate sounded at times more
like a discourse in theology than a political
discussion, with lawmakers expounding on matters like
whether embryos created through cloning are embryos at
all.

"'It is not an embryo,' insisted Mr. Deutsch, of
Florida. 'It is not creating life by any definition of
creating life.'

[er, except as 'the creation of life'?]

"Mr. Weldon replied, 'That's like saying Dolly is not
alive.'" 

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/politics/01STEM.html?todaysheadlines

Embryonic cells of the world, divide ...



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