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Monday August 12, 2002
U.S. BAR ASSOCIATION MAY ENDORSE CLONING
Purpose is 'to advance human health'
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WASHINGTON, August 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The most influential lawyers guild in the United States, the American Bar Association, will vote this week on whether to endorse cloning "to advance human health," while condemning government intervention that would criminalize medical "therapeutic" cloning research, in which it is taken for granted that embryos are destroyed in the laboratory.
The 400,000-member organization has in the past denied that it is a liberal organization. Last year, President Bush shocked the group by ending the 50-year White House tradition of using ABA members to assess potential federal judicial appointees. Now, endorsing human cloning casts doubt on the credibility of reports that the ABA "may be positioning to win back a role in the Bush administration."
ABA says its motion "would not give unqualified support to any medicinal cloning. It does endorse cloning research intended to improve human health so long as the research is conducted ethically and safely." But the lawyers do not seem to grasp that if a human embryo is deliberately destroyed, even for the good of science, such an experiment is ipso facto unethical.
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