Our goal was to clarify the terminology, beginning with the idea of human cloning itself. Human cloning is a subject that has been bedeviled by confusing and manipulative speech. Second, the council strived to formulate fair and accurate terminology. It was of primary importance to put cloning in its proper place, both humanly speaking and also in the context of other biotechnical powers now gathering for manipulating the human body and mind. We sought also to assess the impact of growing biotechnical powers over human life and their effect on human procreation, on the goals and limits of biomedical science, and on the meaning of the activity of healing. I want to summarize the content of the report in five points: First, the council sought to examine the subject of human cloning in full by considering the human goods that cloning might serve or endanger–not just whether the technique is feasible or safe. I am very grateful to Paul Golob of Public Affairs, to Chris DeMuth of the American Enterprise Institute, and to my fellow panelists for helping us in this work. The commercial publication of this volume and the convening of this book forum are intended to help us to perform our mission. Our report, in addition to providing policy recommendations, was intended to serve both of these purposes.
The council’s report, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, was issued in July, and a paperback edition has just been published by Public Affairs.†Īmong the charges to the President’s Council on Bioethics were the following: to provide a forum for the national discussion of bioethical issues and to facilitate a greater understanding of these issues.
Bottum–debate the report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, its recommendations, and the questions it raises about the moral and social implications of new biotechnologies.įor the first six months of this year, the President’s Council on Bioethics met to consider the moral, biomedical, and human significance of human cloning in order to advise President Bush on the subject. Kass, Diana Schaub, Charles Murray, William A.
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