Britain allows limited human cloning

I expect the left-wing San Jose Mercury News to jump on stem cell research as an excuse to justify their Bush-hating rants, so I wasn't surprised to see a page 3 story with the sub-headline (in the print edition) "Britain allows use for stem-cell research while U.S. remains without coherent policy".

But it turns out that the article is complaining that Bush does not have enough restrictions on stem-cell research! It says:

The United States remains without a coherent policy on cloning. ... no federal legislation has been passed that would restrict or ban the technology. So U.S. companies remain free to experiment with cloning without the need of a license, ...

``We're in the worst possible situation,'' said Arthur Caplan, an ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. Privately funded entities can do as they want, he said. ``The public sector is unable to regulate or control anything.''

``Those of us who are serious about medical applications would welcome the control'' ...

Pres. Bush does indeed have a coherent and reasonable policy, and it is more liberal than that of many other countries.