AS CONGRESS prepares to wrap up its legislative year and race home to fight for re-election, one item is glaringly absent: a law making it a crime to make a cloned human.
Ask any member of Congress whether they would support such a law, and the answer would be a resounding yes. The trouble is many feel that a ban on reproductive cloning doesn’t go far enough. They want to ban all cloning, whether it’s to make a baby or to make stem cells. A partial ban, they argue, would leave the door ajar for unscrupulous scientists to transfer a…
