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Legislation that redefines human cloning so that it legalizes it while purporting to ban it altogether is all the rage these days among Big Biotech boosters. An attempt to pass such a phony ban in the Congress lost today by a majority vote. Yuval Levin has the details over at NRO.
Labels: Phony Cloning Bans
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:57 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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Was this the House bill corresponding to S 1520, The "Human Cloning Ban Act of 2005"? What happened to this Senate bill? Did it pass? Looking at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN01520:@@@D&summ2=m& it appears that nothing has happened in nearly 2 years.
Jason
I found part of my own answer. It appears that this was a new bill. But what happened to the old Senate bill, and its corresponding House version?
The Senate bill has not come up and probably won't. It is primarily intended, in my view, to block Brownback. If a new POTUS comes into office, it may get new life. But until then, it isn't going anywhere, especially given the House vote.
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