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CLONING COMMENTARIES

Crossing Line on Cloning
James L. Sherley - Boston Globe

The Many Casualties of Cloning
Richard Doerflinger - The New Atlantis

Veritas? Harvard's Stem Cell Initiative
Keith Plummer - CBHD

“That Thing in a Petri Dish”
Gilbert Meilaender & Robert P. George - National Review Online

Calling a clone a clone
Kathleen Parker - Orlando Sentinel

Australia: It's still embryonic
Frank Brennan - The Australian

Crossing Line on Cloning
James L. Sherley - Boston Globe

The Many Casualties of Cloning
Richard Doerflinger - The New Atlantis

Veritas? Harvard's Stem Cell Initiative
Keith Plummer - CBHD

“That Thing in a Petri Dish”
Gilbert Meilaender & Robert P. George - National Review Online

Cloning Chaos
Richard Doerflinger - National Review Online

To Clone or Not to Clone
Michael Cook - Mercator.net

Research Cloning and "Fetus Farming": The Slippery Slope in Action
Richard Doerflinger - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

A Review of the Novel Cast of Shadows
Christina Bieber Lake - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Contrary To Popular Assumption...
Wesley J. Smith - tothesource

Attack of the Clones?
Kathryn Jean Lopez  and Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online

Does Science Trump All?
Henry Fountain - New York Times

Welcome to the Brave New Jersey
Paul Mulshine  - New Jersey Star-Ledger

Whatever the Cloning Lobby Says, It's Still a Human Embryo
Brian Harradine  - Canberra Times

Cloning For Dollars
Chuck Colson  - TownHall.com

Raising the Stakes
Steve Chapman  - Chicago Tribune

The Next Scientific Discovery: Ethics
Paul Greenberg - Washington Times

The U.N. On Cloning: Ban It
Wesley J. Smith - Weekly Standard

Thou Shalt Not Create
Charles Krauthammer - Washington Post

The Radical Agenda of Human Cloners
Wesley J. Smith - Always On

Women Who Donate Eggs for Research also Deserve Premium Care
Rebecca Dresser - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cloning Hides Under Fake Names
Robert Novak - Chicago Sun-Times

Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research Will Offer No 'Advance' for Society
John Morris - The Business Journal Kansas City

Risks to Women in Embryo Cloning
Judy Norsigian - Boston Globe

Ian Wilmut: Human Cloner
Wesley J. Smith - The Weekly Standard

Stealth Cloning
Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online

Romney vs. Harvard
Kathryn Jean Lopez - National Review Online

The Wrong Path
James Kelly - National Review Online

Fetuses Have Full Rights Too
Paul Kokoski - Taipei Times

Deposition: Stuart A. Newman, PhD to the Superior Court of the State of California
August 2, 2004 - Do No Harm

The Party of Cloning
by  Eric Cohen - The Weekly Standard

Cloning by Any Other Name Still Smells
by Terence Jeffrey - Townhall.com

Beware the Push for Human Cloning
by Brian Harradine - The Age

Don't Clone Ron Reagan's Agenda
by Richard M. Doerflinger - Weekly Standard

Snake Oil: Ron Reagan's Dishonest Presentation
by Robert P. George - National Review

The C-Word: Ron Reagan Seduces by Changing the Terms of the Stem Cell Debate
by Wesley J. Smith - National Review

Legislating Medicine: California's Bizarre Cloning Proposition
by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Jennifer Lahl - San Francisco Chronicle

Cloning Con
Richard M. Doerflinger, National Review Online

A Bad Investment
Wesley J. Smith, National Review Online

Face the Fetus
William Saletan, Slate

[Therapeutic Cloning Egg] Donors Need Defenders
Ann Elizabeth Samson, The Globe and Mail

Cloning: Between Hype and Hope
James Kelly, Manitou Magazine

What's In a Name?
Wesley J. Smith, The Daily Standard

Brave New Illinois
Daniel McConchie, National Review Online

Human Cloning in Korea: Does Medicine Have No Moral Limits?
Albert Mohler, Crosswalk.com

Cloning and the First State
Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard

New Jersey is Off to See the Cloning Wizard
Jan LaRue, Concerned Women for America

Trenton Plays God
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online

NJ Stem Cell Research Bill Seeks to Make the State Safe for Human Cloning
Richard Doerflinger, Diocese of Trenton

Letter urging Gov. McGreevey to veto S1909/A2840
Three US Reps. from NJ, NJ Right to Life

Jersey's Brave New World
Robert Novak, Townhall.com

Cloning in New Jersey
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

Vatican Intervention to UN on Cloning
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, The Vatican

Has Experimenting on Human Life Lost Its Power to Disgust?
Michael Cook, The Age

Garden State Bioethics
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online

Why Medicine Should Reject Human Cloning
William P. Cheshire, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Linda K. Bevington, C. Ben Mitchell, Nancy L. Jones, Kevin T. FitzGerald, C. Everett Koop, and John F. Kilner, Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Stop Therapeutic Cloning
Matthew du Mée Peoria, Arizona Republic

AMA Approves Creating Life for Destructive Purposes
Samuel D. Hensley, MD, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Comments on Staff Working Paper #8, An Unnumbered Staff Working Paper on Regulating Biotechnologies, and Selected Transcripts of The President's Council on Bioethics
Nathan A. Adams IV, et al., Christian Legal Society and Christian Medical and Dental Society, Amici Consili

Prevent Farming of Embryos
Richard M. Doerflinger, The Times Picayune

Tyranny of the Present: Before the Conference: Did Germany Block a Cloning Prohibition?
Alexander Kissler, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Human Cloning: The Battle of the Ban
Tom Hess, Focus on the Family

Banning It: Getting Past Hatch-Feinstein
Wesley J. Smith, National Review Online

The Genetic Revolution and American Democracy
Ethics and Public Policy Center

Remarks and Responses: Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Cloning
Americans to Ban Cloning

The Impact of Human Cloning on Women
William Saunders, Family Research Council

Why Superman is a Poor Saviour for Superhuman Research
The New Zealand Herald

Cloning Newspeak
San Francisco Chronicle 

Human Cloning Legislation in Congress: Misconceptions and Realities
National Right to Life Committee

Cloning in Canada
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Bioethics.com

Cloning Defeat Heralds Horrifying Future for Mankind
Bruno Quintavalle, ProLife Alliance - UK

Don't Create Embryo Merely for Research
Kristen Hansen, Family Research Council, The Wall Street Journal

House Passes NRLC-Backed Bill to Ban the Cloning of Human Embryos, But Many Senators Still Back Human Cloning for Biomedical Research
National Right to Life Committee

A  Better Cloning Plan
A. Scott Loveless,
The Salt Lake Tribune

Valentine's Day Proves Fatal for Dolly
Bert Thompson, Ph.D. and Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
, Apologetics Press

Interview on Weldon-Stupak Vote
Michael Werner and Bill Saunders, Medscape.com

Bioethics and the Christian
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, BreakPoint Online

Human Cloning Packet
Republican Study Committee

Statement of Administration Policy
The White House, NRLC

Refute the Lie, Don't Clone It
Jim Kelly,
Americans to Ban Cloning

An Obvious Moral Absurdity
Charles Colson, BreakPoint Online

Does Gephardt Have a Clone?
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

Cloning Superman
Charles Colson, BreakPoint

Letter to the House of Representatives Concerning Anti-Cloning Legislation
Anthony Bevilacqua, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Letter to the House of Representatives Against Greenwood Substitute
Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Committee

Newspeak Comes to the Brave New World
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Will Congress Ban Human Cloning?
Republican National Coalition for Life

Why the Christian Legal Society Opposes Feinstein-Hatch
CLSNet.org

Christian Legal Society White Paper
CLSNet.org

Christopher Reeve Republicans
Robert Novak, Townhall.com

Here Come the Jersey Clones
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review

Letter urging Gov. McGreevey to oppose legalization of cloning and fetal farming
Members of the President's Council of Bioethics, NJ right to Life

Legal analysis of S1909/A2840
Prof. Gerard Bradley, Notre Dame Law School, NJ Right to Life

All About Eve
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Clones and Rael-Politik
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

How One Clone Leads to Another
Leon R. Kass, Chairman, President's Council on Bioethics, New York Times

Momentum Builds in Congress for a Cloning Ban
Council for Responsible Genetics

All About Eve: We Don't Need Clones
Susan Konig, National Review

Left Clones: The Raelians Are Just Liberal Nuts
Stanley Kurtz, National Review

Killing Eve: How Senators Justify Cloning--and Infanticide
William Saletan, Slate

The Cloning
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

A Clone By Any Other Name
William Kristol and Eric Cohen, Weekly Standard

A Parliament That Fails to Speak For Life
Lord Alton, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Human Cloning
John F. Kilner, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Human Embryo Research After the Genome
William P. Cheshire, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

President Bush Keeps Faith on Cloning
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Cloning Adam's Rib: A Primer on Religious Responses to Cloning
John H. Evans, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

The Ethics of "Reproductive" Cloning: Child, Family, and Society
The President's Council on Bioethics

On Terminology
The President's Council on Bioethics

American Moral Leadership in the Other War
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Is Human Cloning Inevitable? A Christian Response
William P. Cheshire, The Center for Bioethics in Culture

On The Cloning Of Human Beings
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

On the Cloning Of Human Beings: Some International Perspectives
Nigel M. De S. Cameron, Council on Biotechnology Policy

Guidance From an Unlikely Source: Cloning and the Movies
BreakPoint

Biological Machines: Cloning and Patent Law
BreakPoint

The Cloning Agenda: Designing the Human of the Future
BreakPoint

What Happened to Cloning? A Capitol Hill Update
BreakPoint

Practical Council
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Embryonic Clones Could Lessen the Value of Human Life in the U.S.
William Kristol and Jeremy Rifkin, Los Angeles Times

Brave New Clarity: What the Kass Council Got Right
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Bush's Mutant Cloning Report
William Saletan, Slate

The Kass Council's Good Counsel
William Kristol, Weekly Standard

President's Council Report on Human Cloning Lacks Prophetic Voice
C. Ben Mitchell, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Stop All Human Cloning For Four Years
Leon R. Kass, Wall Street Journal

The Fatal Promise of Cloning
Charles Krauthammer, Time

Cloning and Congress: No Ban Is Better Than a Phony Ban
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

What to Call Human Cloning
Donal O'Mathuna, European Molecular Biology Organization Report

The New Grim Reapers: Practitioners of Bioethics Say Who Should Live -- And Who Should Die
Wesley J. Smith, San Francisco Chronicle

Clone Wars, Part II
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review

Daschle's Duplicity & Now, The President Must Act to Ban Cloning
Family Research Council

Senate Denied Cloning Vote, But Issue Will Not Go Away
Nigel Cameron, Wilberforce Forum

Congress: Ban All Human Cloning
Indianapolis Star

Where the Cloning Debate Is Taking Us
Steve Chapman, Townhall.com

Brave New Patents
William Kristol, Weekly Standard

The Hatch Hypothesis: A Strange, Unscientific Belief That May Confuse the Senate’s Cloning Vote
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Americans to Ban Cloning

Senate Should Pass Cloning Ban
Black Hills Pioneer

Research Cloning? No.
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Calculated Deception: Cloning Advocates Aren't Telling the Truth
William Saunders, Americans to Ban Cloning

Beware Legislators Who Approve Cloning While Pretending to Ban It
Connie Marshner, Enter Stage Right

Therapeutic Cloning Ignores the Fate of Embryos
David Hess, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Human Cloning: The 'Terrible Odds'
Dr. Donald Bruce, BBC

Adult Stem Cell Research Holds More Scientific Promise for Cures
Jim Kelly, Detroit News

Hatching Clones: The Senior Senator From Utah Prepares to Flip
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review

Harry and Louise's Evil Clones?
Richard Doerflinger, Americans to Ban Cloning

Harry and Louise Return: The Couple is Back and This Time They Want America to Know that Cloning Isn't Really Cloning
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

The Cloning Ban: A Battle We Must Win
Breakpoint

The Politics of Cloning
Breakpoint

Medical Cloning Is Anti-Life
Ken Conner, Orlando Sentinel

Crossing Lines, Charles Krauthammer
The New Republic

Spinning Stem Cells
Wesley Smith, National Review

Beware: Human Cloning Risks Creating Monsters
Alasdair Palmer, The Age

Stem Cell Research and "Therapeutic" Cloning, A Christian Analysis
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

The Future Is Now, II
William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

Let's Be Adults About Stem Cell Research
Editorial Board, National Post

The Dilemma of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Tom P. Dooley, PhD, President of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama, Tom Dooley
Note: Dr. Dooley has recently resigned as President of the Biotechnology Association of Alabama over its support of embryonic stem cell research and cloning

Letter to Feldbaum, President, Biotechnology Industry Organization
William Kristol, Americans to Ban Cloning

Joint Letter to Tom Daschle - April 22, 2002
Americans to Ban Cloning

Therapeutic Cloning: An Oxymoron
Amy Coxon, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Smoke and Mirrors Awards: Brave New World Recognitions
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Open Letter to Sen. Kennedy and Kerry Urging Them to Ban All Human Cloning
Massachusetts News

Cloning Information Brochure
Children of God for Life

The False Promise of "Therapeutic" Cloning
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

The Biotech Project
J. Bottum, Weekly Standard

The Back Door to Human Cloning
Michael M. Uhlmann, Crisis Magazine

Strange Clonefellows: The Left-Right Anti-Cloning Coalition
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

Fusion Biopolitics
Jeremy Rifkin, The Nation

Lapse of Reason: The Libertarians and Cloning
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review

Roe vs. Wade vs. Cloning
Cal Thomas, Jewish World Review

BioSpin: Why Adult Stem Cell Research Successes Get Downplayed in the Media
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Kass Warfare: The President's Bioethics Council Enters the Cloning Fray
Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard

Does Human Nature Have a Future? The End of History, Bobos, and Biotechnology
Peter Augustine Lawler, Weekly Standard

Human Cloning and the Ethics of Inevitability
William P. Cheshire, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Those Dastardly "Fundamentalists": On the Washington Post's Cloning Reporting
L. Brent Bozell, Media Research Center

Ban All Cloning Techniques
Kenneth Conner, USA Today

Time for Candor on the Cloning of Embryos
Nigel Cameron, Americans to Ban Cloning

Science or Propaganda?  The Curious Cloning Report from the National Academy of Sciences
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

Close the Door on Cloning
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Closing in on Cloning: Don't Expect an Honest Debate as the Legislative Fight Heats Up
Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard

Everyone's a Twinner: Why the Cloning Industry's Latest Lobbying Blitz is a Snow Job
William Saletan, Slate

The Too-Weak Rule
William Saletan, Slate

Daschle's Stalls Makes Senator No a Senator No-No
Paul M. Weyrich, Americans to Ban Cloning

Human Farm Incorporated
Mae-Wan Ho, Institute of Science in Society

Cartoon by Carmelo Torres

That Scientific Breakthrough Thing
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times

No Imperative to Clone Human Beings
Thomas P. Dooley, e-Human-Cloning

Dr. West and Mr. bin Laden
Eric Cohen and William Kristol, Weekly Standard

Don't Clone Britain's Approach
David Prentice, National Review

Statement on Cloning and the ACT Announcement
Nigel Cameron, BreakPoint

Human Cloning: Our Best Chance to Put Biotechnology In Its Place
Nigel Cameron, Americans to Ban Cloning

No-Spin Clone Zone
Jonathan Imbody, Americans to Ban Cloning

Monstrous, Inc.
Tim Graham, World

Cloning and the Debate Over Abortion
Nigel Cameron and Lori Andrews, Wilberforce Forum

While the Senate Sleeps
J. Bottum for the Editors, Weekly Standard

Cloning the First Human Embryo
Jim Eckman, Issues in Perspective

Are We Homo Sapiens or Not?
Connie Marshner, Free Congress Foundation

Cloning On the Slippery Slope
Patricia Koyce Wanniski, Supply Side Investor

It's Time to Ban Cloning of Humans
Editorial, Pensacola News Journal

An Ethical Wake-up Call
R. Albert Moehler, World

Cloning Devalues Humanity
Richard Shelby, USA Today

Unless We Act Now, More Clones Will Die
C. Ben Mitchell, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Time to Ban Cloning of Human Beings
Kenneth L. Conner, Family Research Council

Human Cloning-Embryo Style: Deliverance or Captivity?
Nancy L. Jones, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Human Cloning, By Any Name, Should Be Banned
Donal P. O'Mathuna, Columbus Dispatch

Science and Ethics At Odds?
Editorial, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Human Cloning is Here
John F. Kilner, The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

Human Cloning: The Need for a Comprehensive Ban
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

The Ethicist's New Clothes
William Saletan, Slate

Shopping for Humans
Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian

This Is the Age of Biology
Jeremy Rifkin, The Guardian

Cloning Reality
Wesley J. Smith, National Review

Finding the Line Between Good and Evil: The Cloning of Human Beings in Light of the Nuremburg Code
William J. Saunders, J.D., Family Research Council

The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning
Robert P. George, J.D., Family Research Council

Is Cloning Immoral
William J. Saunders, J.D., Family Research Council