Volume 44, Number 16 · October 23, 1997
The Confusion over Cloning
By Richard C. Lewontin
Cloning Human Beings: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
110, plus 5-page addendum pp., Rockland, Maryland, June 1997
There is nothing like sex or violence for capturing the immediate attention of the state. Only a day after Franklin Roosevelt was told in October 1939 that both German and American scientists could probably make an atom bomb, a small group met at the President's direction to talk about the problem and within ten days a committee was undertaking a full-scale investigation of the possibility. Just a day after the public announcement on February 23, 1997, that a sheep, genetically identical to another sheep, had been produced by cloning, Bill Clinton formally requested that the National Bioethics Advisory Commission 'undertake a thorough review of the legal and ethical issues associated with the use of this technology….'
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