Cloning opponents criticized for ‘imposing their moral code’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--While U.S. armed forces continue to rout out the remaining vestiges of the Taliban in Afghanistan, some American news reporters are fingering an alleged new "Taliban" in America -- those who have religious and moral concerns on bioethics issues, Richard Land said Jan. 19.
SBC leaders, others encourage president’s anti-cloning stance
WASHINGTON (BP)--Two Southern Baptist ethics leaders have signed onto a letter encouraging President Bush's effort to enact a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
FIRST-PERSON: Tiniest humans must be protected before Congress’ Christmas break
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Nov. 25 announcement that Advanced Cell Technology has cloned human embryos makes it urgent that Congress immediately enact a comprehensive ban on all types of human cloning.
FIRST-PERSON: It may be ‘therapeutic cloning,’ but it’s fraught with dangers
BANNOCKBURN, Ill. (BP)--On Sunday, Nov. 25, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Worcester, Mass., announced it had produced several human embryos through cloning. The cloning technique involved the transfer of nuclear material from an existing person to donated human egg cells whose nuclear material had been removed. All of the embryos died before growing beyond the six-cell stage.
Criticism, calls for ban greet news of cloned human embryo
WASHINGTON (BP)--Widespread criticism and calls for an immediate legislative ban greeted the announcement of the first cloned human embryo.
Comprehensive ban on cloning passes House of Representatives
WASHINGTON (BP)--The House of Representatives voted by a comfortable margin July 31 to ban all human cloning.
White House announces support for comprehensive ban on human cloning
WASHINGTON (BP)--The Bush administration announced June 20 its support for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
FIRST-PERSON: Issues that ought to cause us all to lay awake at night
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--By any method of reckoning, we have entered an age of nearly unbridled biotechnological expansion. Futurists almost universally claim that the 21st century will be what Jeremy Rifkin has called "The Biotech Century."
Mohler, on TV panel, argues human cloning should be banned
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Human cloning experimentation is inherently wrong, has no ethical basis and should be banned by Congress, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a panel discussion on "Kentucky Tonight" April 9.
The hour-long program, broadcast live statewide on Kentucky Educational Television (KET), focused on the ramifications of human cloning experimentation. The four-member panel included Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and former University of Kentucky professor Panos Zavos, who recently made national headlines by testifying before a congressional subcommittee in support of cloning and has promised to clone a human within 18 months.
FIRST-PERSON: Cloning Dolly is one thing. Cloning Molly is another.
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Newborn baby Hope was just fine. Big sister Molly now had a perfect match for her bone marrow transplant. Rachel and Jake had not planned on a second baby, but the need for an exact genetic match had demanded the birth of Molly's cloned, twin sister.
