FC: Petition: Therapeutic cloning should NOT be banned

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

I have the privilege of being one of the founding members of the Franklin 
Society, which has created the below petition. I urge Politech members to 
read the links below and consider signing the petition.

Bush statement yesterday endorsing cloning ban:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html

The Brownback bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01899:
It says: "It shall be unlawful for any person or entity... to perform or 
attempt to perform human cloning or to participate in an attempt to perform 
human cloning"

News articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/politics/11CLON.html
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51713,00.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-vpqkin102662617apr10001622.story
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992148
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cloning

-Declan

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From: "Nick Gillespie" <gillespie () reason com>
To: "Declan@Well. Com" <declan () well com>
Subject: pro-therapeutic cloning petition
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:40:14 -0400

Declan,

This might be something that both you and the Politech list would be 
interested in:

My predecessor at Reason, Virginia Postrel, has founded a network called 
the Franklin Society, whose current project is an pro-therapeutic cloning 
petition. As you know, George W. Bush is urging the Senate to follow the 
House of Representative's lead and ban all human cloning, so the time to 
speak is now.

The document is online at 
<http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html>http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.<http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html>html

I encourage you to check it out and add your name to the list, and to the 
network, too.

Thanks,

Nick


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