Re: Stem Cell Debate --Banned in the USA

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 11:53:15 MDT

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0700, E. Shaun Russell wrote:
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> How damned unfortunate.
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010801/pl/congress_cloning.html

And a good example of why we need to counteract the real source of the
anti-cloning/anti-stemcell (note how they cleverly mixed up the concepts)
ideas: the essentially romantic conception of nature as being perfect,
the moral standard and unlawful to tamper with.

I'm gearing up for the Swedish stem-cell debate myself. 

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