FC: Petition: Therapeutic cloning should NOT be banned

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 10:41:48 PDT

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    I have the privilege of being one of the founding members of the Franklin 
    Society, which has created the below petition. I urge Politech members to 
    read the links below and consider signing the petition.
    
    Bush statement yesterday endorsing cloning ban:
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html
    
    The Brownback bill:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01899:
    It says: "It shall be unlawful for any person or entity... to perform or 
    attempt to perform human cloning or to participate in an attempt to perform 
    human cloning"
    
    News articles:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/politics/11CLON.html
    http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51713,00.html
    http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-vpqkin102662617apr10001622.story
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992148
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cloning
    
    -Declan
    
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    From: "Nick Gillespie" <gillespieat_private>
    To: "Declan@Well. Com" <declanat_private>
    Subject: pro-therapeutic cloning petition
    Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:40:14 -0400
    
    Declan,
    
    This might be something that both you and the Politech list would be 
    interested in:
    
    My predecessor at Reason, Virginia Postrel, has founded a network called 
    the Franklin Society, whose current project is an pro-therapeutic cloning 
    petition. As you know, George W. Bush is urging the Senate to follow the 
    House of Representative's lead and ban all human cloning, so the time to 
    speak is now.
    
    The document is online at 
    <http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html>http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.>html
    
    I encourage you to check it out and add your name to the list, and to the 
    network, too.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Nick
    
    
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