See also: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50297,00.html By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. Feb. 9, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- It's been seven months since the House of Representatives voted to ban cloning, and the Senate is deciding whether to follow suit. This week, the Senate Judiciary committee met to decide whether to ban human embryo cloning completely, or to prohibit only the reproductive cloning of human beings while still allowing "therapeutic" cloning for experimental research. [...] ************ Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:06:53 -0500 From: Saul Kent <SaulKentat_private> Subject: Don't Let The Government Ban Therapeutic Cloning! Therapeutic cloning research could lead to cures for heart disease, stroke, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other lethal conditions. It could also lead to therapies to reverse the infirmities and ravages of aging. The U.S. Senate is now debating The Human Cloning Prohibition Act (S.790), which has already passed the House. This bill could put scientists who conduct therapeutic cloning research in prison for 10 years. The Life Extension Foundation urges you to contact U.S. Senators to urge them to vote against this bill. Information about how to do so can be found on The Foundation's web site (www.lef.org). Also on the site is an interview with Mike West, Ph.D., the President and CEO of Advanced Cell Technology, and an article entitled "Don't Let The U.S. Government Ban Therapeutic Cloning". Please send this message to everyone you know who is interested in staying alive and healthy. Saul Kent, Founder and Director Life Extension Foundation *********** Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:58:31 -0600 Subject: Re: FC: Responses to Center for Genetics and Society and ban on cloning From: Virginia Postrel <virginiaat_private> To: <declanat_private> Message-ID: <B884B484.B24F%virginiaat_private> In-Reply-To: <20020204211620.A16624at_private> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > After much thought I've come to the following conclusion: if we are > simply talking about the use of stem-cells/etc to learn how to clone > replacement organs, I am very comfortable with this line of research. > Furthermore, no one (save the Amish, Christian Scientists, and the > Luddites), I believe, would be against that technology. Judging from the mail you've posted, a number of your readers seem to be unaware that the House has overwhelmingly passed (in last year's session) and the White House has endorsed legislation that would make doing this--transferring a nucleus to an enucleated egg **for the purpose of cloning tissues or for basic cell research**, not only for reproductive purposes--a federal crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. This would be a permanent ban, not a moratorium, and it is this sort of legislation that the Center for Genetics and Society is supporting. I wrote about this subject in The Wall Street Journal, http://www.dynamist.com/opeds/cloning.html. -- Virginia Postrel (vpostrelat_private) Author, The Future and Its Enemies "Economic Scene" columnist, The New York Times Contributing editor and "Spaces" columnist, D Magazine http://www.dynamist.com | http://vpostrel.com (The Scene) -- Read about my book-in-progress at http://www.dynamist.com/lookandfeel.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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