From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@ocean.com.au)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 17:51:54 MST
"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030129/hl_nm/cloning_se
nate_dc_1"
"WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - The battle over whether to
ban human cloning--and exactly what that means--picked up
Wednesday just where it left off last year in the US Senate.
Backers of a ban on all forms of human cloning re-introduced
legislation that passed the House last year but stalled in the Senate,
while opponents urged passage of legislation to ban cloning intended
to produce a baby, but to continue to allow cloning of embryos to
derive stem cells for research.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who introduced a new version of
last year's cloning ban and chaired a Commerce Committee hearing
on the subject, said in the end the issue is one of semantics".
--
Hmmm. Damn semantics could be the death of us yet.
A sad epitaph for an extrope circa 2010.
Here lies poor valiant X.
Student and researcher into AI, enthusiast of the
now very impending singularity.
In life she wished peace on earth for all
and may have talked the world into it too but
alas she died six months short of a heart
transplant becoming available.
She will be missed.
T'was mere semantics in government that killed her
in the end.
Brett
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