In 1995 US President Clinton appointed 18 professional bioethicists to a National Bioethics Advisory Commission to advise him on research ethics. After the announcement of Dolly the sheep having been cloned in 1997 the NBAC was asked propose cloning policy. The NBAC advised that the NSF/NIH should fund therapeutic stem cloning but that there should be a five year moratorium on reproductive cloning research because it was still too unsafe for human subjects. (In fact, it is still too unsafe for human subjects). The NBAC expired in 2001.
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LifeEthics on 02/08 at 11:55 PM
Sorry to be so late, but I found this searching for Alta's original "endarkenment" quote.
Were Clinton's "professional bioethicists" conservative or not? Is Kass professional or not?
Beverly B. Nuckols, MD
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