THE position of the Bush administration on human cloning could not be clearer: just say no. No to putting a cloned embryo into a surrogate mother in an effort to create a cloned child. And no to taking the first steps in the process – using somatic cell nuclear transfer to put an adult cell’s DNA into an egg. Both are morally wrong, according to the White House.
While there’s virtual unanimity on that first “no”, the second is causing problems. Scientists, via sympathetic senators, have managed to thwart any legislation that would prevent the second form of cloning, because they see therapeutic promise from stem cells…
