This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
Mississippi appears on the brink of outlawing all human cloning. The vote was overwhelming, with only 4 opposed. Interestingly, the only quotes in this story on the vote are from opponents of the bill, so the reader has no idea why so many legislators supported the legislation. Typical.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 3:11 PM
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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Actually you may want to re-read -the quotes are strange but are from supporters.
Mayo says shouldn't get involved, only good part is advisory committee, and then it says he voted for it anyway. And what is "partial embryonic research"??!
And it sounds like a Democat, Sid Bondurant, got it right that the advances are in adult stem cells.
Whoo - hoo!
Thanks. Partial embryonic stem cell research, well, everybody knows that they are, well, I suppose, the term could mean, well, ????????
I've reached the conclusion that party labels mean little or nothing at the local level, particularly in the South. The Missisippi town where I grew up had only Democratic primaries because there weren't enough Republican candidates to bother having one. As far as I know, that's still the case. But the people are mostly pretty conservative - it's a dry county, for instance.
Yes. It is primarily on the national level that the parties have sharper divides on the social issues. In the heartland, they often are less divided.
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