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UPDATE ON HUMAN CLONING AND FETUS FARMS      This is an update from the Federal Legislation Department at National Right to Life in Washington, D.C., 202-626-8820, Legfederal@aol.com, issued on September 21, 2005.        It now appears that consideration of various bills dealing with embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and related issues in the U.S. Senate will be delayed, at least until October 2005 and perhaps longer, due in part to preoccupation with legislation related to Hurricane Katrina, and the two Supreme Court vacancies.  The issue also continues to percolate in a number of state legislatures.  This update provides you with...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version April 05, 2004, 8:33 a.m. The Doctor Is InThe head of the president&#8217;s bioethics commission on assisted reproduction, cloning, council critics & more. Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez On Thursday, the President's Council on Bioethics issued a its latest report, "Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies." Dr. Leon Kass, head of the commission — who is a medical doctor, a professor on leave from the University of Chicago, and currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of books including Life,...

Twenty-five years after the birth of the first test-tube baby, an advisory panel to President Bush is leading an effort to increase government scrutiny of the hugely popular and minimally regulated branch of medicine known as assisted reproduction. The 18-member panel, the President's Council on Bioethics, plans to release a report on Thursday that recommends regulations that affect the research and practice of in vitro fertilization, according to several people familiar with the final version. Surprisingly, the report includes recommendations for legislation to govern embryo research that could, if adopted, break the impasse over human cloning and stem cell research,...

A rose is a rose is a rose, even if — like many commercial plants — it is essentially a clone. But is a normal human blastocyst, a microscopic bubble of proto-life that forms about five days after sperm meets egg, the same as a cloned blastocyst? That may seem an arcane technical question in the debate about human cloning, reignited last week with the announcement by South Korean scientists that they had cloned a human embryo and harvested embryonic stem cells from it. But scientists, politicians and bioethicists have been grappling for years with the biological and moral subtleties...

The Senate will be considering soon the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, S245. Contact your senators! What was once the stuff of science fiction now confronts us. Cloning, or somatic cell nuclear transfer, is among the most challenging innovations of biotechnology, for it could redefine what it means to be a member of the human family. Cloning is the process of creating identical genetic replicas. Human cloning is the manufacture of a human being by extracting the nucleus from an egg, injecting a cell containing DNA from the donor, and then giving the egg a shock of electricity to stimulate cell...

Why did the President call for a ban on human cloning? For the vast majority of Americans, the acceptance quotient regarding nascent life falls somewhere between ‘legal protection for all conceived individual human life’ and ‘legal protection for partial birth abortion.’ With acceptance of in vitro fertilization, followed eventually by the apparent necessity for some legal abortion, our society too quickly arrived at acceptance of, no, defense of, infanticide. Our society can degenerate further. A straight-line course from our current reality will have us embracing the notion that ‘exploitation of embryonic life is needed to bolster unencumbered lives of worthy...

Brownback Introduces Bill to Ban Human Cloning Wednesday, January 29, 2003 WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback today introduced legislation to ban all human cloning, and chaired a hearing on the issue in the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. “Today we will investigate the science and the ethics of human cloning,” Brownback said. “The world was stunned when a cult claimed to have produced the first live-born human clone. “Whether or not the Raelian claim of a live-born human clone is, in the end, proven to be true or false, we all know, at a minimum, that...