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By Cat on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 07:44 pm:

    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010731/ts/health_congress_cloning_dc_4.html

    So looks like cloning will only be done under a cloak of secrecy now.

    I find it really hard to get all excited about this issue and yet it's up there with abortion as a deeply divisive moral dilemma.

    I guess my take on it is that you can't stop medical science, so why bother? Cloning is here to stay and the decision by the US government will only delay the inevitable.

    The decision could actually be harmful because like backyard abortions, cloning is going to happen. If it doesn't happen in a clean, safe, controlled environment, then the risk of tragedy is greater.

By Antigone on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 07:56 pm:

    I like this part:

    ``Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation,'' House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, said.

    But harvesting spare parts from dead people is preferable? Riiiiiight....

    Even if this does pass the Senate (not a sure thing) the situation will correct itself in time. The moment some incredible health breakthrough came from cloned embryos, the American public would make it legal, by whatever means necesary.

By Nate on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 08:12 pm:

    it's no worse than fertility treatments.

    people who shouldn't exist shouldn't exist. that's my opinion.

By dave. on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 - 09:26 pm:

    i think it's cool. imagine 4 foot spheres of vat-grown spencer steak, turkey breasts, copper river salmon. . . all cruelty free. electrically stimulate the muscle mass to keep it toned. i'd eat that. not the whole cube; you know what i mean.

By semillama on Wednesday, August 1, 2001 - 09:07 am:

    You know you're getting into some really interesting and important stuff in science when it starts getting really creepy.

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