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Monday, March 08, 2004

Korean Cloning and the Sin of Pride

An editorial against cloning today inadvertenty suggested to what extent ambition to be first in the world motivated the Korean scientists behibd the cloning of human embryos a few weeks ago. Here are a few quotes from [VIEWPOINT]Cloning's moral issues are real:
    "Professor Hwang Woo-suk recently succeeded in cloning human embryos through somatic cell nuclear transplantation, and in extracting embryonic stem cells from the embryos. He held a victorious press conference in front of U.S. scientists, who take pride in being the best in the world as far as biotechnology is concerned, and received their praise for a marvelous.

    "This is quite an inspiration for Koreans, who have lived powerlessly to such an extent that we could not but send our youths to the battlefields in Iraq when the United States demanded we do so."