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Article: STATE CLONING BAN WOULD DO NO GOOD BUT A CAREFULLY CRAFTED FEDERAL LAW COULD PROHIBIT CLONING FOR REPRODUCTIVE PURPOSES, WHILE ALLOWING IT FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, WITHOUT CREATING LOOPHOLES FOR RAELIAN-STYLE SHENANIGANS.(OPINION)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2003
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When somebody does something we don't like, we often grumble, "There oughta be a law." Crowd-pleasing elected officials then enthusiastically leap to the task.
Trouble is, passing a law often doesn't help, and sometimes hurts.
That would be the case with a state ban on human cloning. A couple of cloning-ban bills likely to see debate this legislative session would very likely derail Wisconsin's pioneering stem-cell research efforts in the process.
That's because scientists in a handful of labs worldwide are trying to clone blastocysts -- basically, a ball of human cells that can develop into an embryo -- as a source of replacement cells for ...