Actually, at that meeting when Charo called Wesley Smith part of the “endarkenment,” she said that she is convinced that continued research in cloning will prove there is no Creator, that humans are not special in evolution,
http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2006/07/endarkenment-and-humans.html
and that she’s not bothered by sex selection abortions, since India and China are balanced by the US and Canada, where everyone wants one of each. http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2006/07/politics-and-bioethics-conference-wrap.html
She got mad and walked away from me when I asked her “what’s the difference between killing your children because you want to make sure to have one of each or killing them because you only want males?”
If you’d like to see/hear lawyer, Robin Alta Charo, I’ve reviewed (and linked to) the video of the closing panel for the World Stem Cell Symposium from late September, 2008, here http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2008/11/world-stem-cell-summit-blogged.html
I just watched “Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed” by Ben Stein last weekend. I was thinking about one of your recent posts throughout.
Science and Academia is totalitarian.