Clinton Files Show Kagan Advocated Cloning for Human Research

american spectator ^ | 6/10/10 | Robert Stacy McCain

[Nachum]

White House memos from 1997, when Elena Kagan was a top domestic policy advisor to President Clinton, show that Kagan -- nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama -- recommended that the Clinton administration permit cloning of human embryos for research purposes.

Writing just months after Scottish researchers had announced the birth of a cloned sheep, Kagan and another Clinton aide recommended that the president announce a ban on cloning that would lead to the birth of human infants, but emphasized that the policy "would not ban the creation of cloned embryos for research purposes.

[Nachum]

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[a fool in paradise]

If the Left gets the fetal stem cells they want to market (and the research is to bring it to market), they are going to want something they can (A)patent and (B)ensure consistency of product (cloned fetuses will be indenticial vs. the “random factor”).

[AliVeritas]

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[Arthur Wildfire! March]

She wanted to use babies as lab rats. “Well, they weren’t technically born.”