Tuesday, November 12, 2002 :::
Lily Malcolm questions Robert George's suggestion that last week's election included a mandate on human cloning.
My impression is that there's broad support for a cloning ban, but not deep support, and she's certainly right that nobody was voting based on it. From a political point of view, I don't think there's a lot to be gained from this issue. And, actually, there were a few campaigns that mentioned Social Security reform, which he discounts.
Really, the only reason I mention this is that Dean and I have never had a problem with cloning, because we're clones of each other. Maybe if either of us tolerated political enforcement of "God's will", we might have to grapple with it, but we never really saw a need to prohibit the artificial replication of a natural phenomenon.
::: posted by Steven at 11:16 PM
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