Cloning Creates Odd Bedfellows
By Rick Weiss,
The Washington Post
| 02. 10. 2002
What would Rachel Carson say about human embryo cloning? It's an
incongruous question, perhaps. After all, the current debate over
cloning and embryo research was inconceivable in 1962 when Carson
wrote "Silent Spring," launching the modern environmental
movement.
Yet environmental groups -- along with a growing number of other
liberal-leaning interest groups -- are increasingly voicing concerns
about the bioethical issue of embryo cloning. In doing so, they are
finding themselves shoulder to shoulder with the religious and political
conservatives who have traditionally led the campaign against human
embryo research.
Indeed, the more the human cloning issue evolves on Capitol Hill,
the more the standard political banners so proudly waved in these
parts have begun to tatter. Women's health groups, usually unified
to the left of center, have split over the issue. Libertarians and
others usually affiliated with the right -- including a former Reagan
adviser, George A. Keyworth II -- have decried current efforts to
ban cloning research. Those of us who work inside the Beltway are
accustomed to political pragmatism. But as someone who has covered
science here...
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