Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical
questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to
control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his decision
to permit limited federal funding for stem-cell research, President
George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics to
address the ethical ramifications of biomedical innovation. Over
the past year the Council, whose members comprise an all-star team
of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, humanists, and
theologians, has discussed and debated the pros and cons of
cloning, whether to produce children or to aid in scientific
research. This book is its insightful and thought-provoking report.
The questions the Council members confronted do not have easy
answers, and they did not seek to hide their differences behind an
artificial consensus. Rather, the Council decided to allow each
side to make its own best case, so that the American people can
think about and debate these questions, which go to the heart of
what it means to be a human being. Just as the dawn of the atomic
age created ethical dilemmas for the United States, cloning
presents us with similar quandaries that we are sure to wrestle
with for decades to come.
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