WHO OPPOSES THE HUMAN CLONING PROHIBITION ACT?
Unfortunately, the momentum generated by the successful vote in the House was dissipated when the terrorists attacked on September 11. While the country’s attention and energy were diverted to meet the terrorist threat, the opponents of the Human Cloning Prohibition Act reorganized and lobbied their friends in the Senate. The principal opponents to the ban on human cloning are represented by the powerful Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). They stand to gain financially from the industrial exploitation of what one may accurately describe as “human embryo farms” or “human embryo hatcheries.” Other opponents to a ban on human cloning are biomedical researchers who wish to have a free hand experimenting on cloned human embryos. It is the ever- present temptation of scientists to argue that if they can do it (for the high purpose of research, of course) they should be permitted to do it. And if needed, they want to have a “bioethics committee” giving them a permission slip. Some pat
