Does Pro-Life Cloning Exist?
The Debate Rages On | Valerie Schmalz | June 16, 2005 Print-friendly version Can techniques of human cloning be altered to serve life in a morally acceptable way? The question is debated even as the U.S. Senate may be poised to pass funding bill. Pro-life scientists and ethicists trying to find a middle way in the national firefight over embryonic stem cell research believe they may have come up with a way to mimic the cloning process to produce embryonic stem cell-like cells but without creating or destroying an embryo. Lawmakers under attack for opposing embryonic stem research have latched onto the idea and may well succeed in funding research into the new theories by year s end. Meanwhile, a small number of philosophers and scientists believe it is impossible to genetically engineer the cloning process to an ethically acceptable end and are fighting a rear-guard action against the ideas. In the Senate, vocally pro-life Sen. Rick Santorum plans to join with Majority Leader Bill Fris
