Democracy and transcendence are mutually exclusive concepts. I am searching for a radical alternative, and that search led me to consider Nazi Germany, which, for all its imperfections, at least had some concept of human evolution and transcendence. However, Nazism is my point of departure, not my conclusion. It's not what I thought it was, just a few years ago. A ban would put U.S. law in line with 29 European nations.
Cloning is an insult to humanity.
It is science gone crazy. If stem cell research is controversial, just wait till we start modifying our own cells in a serious way. The 15-Watt dimbulbs of the world will be foaming at the mouth. They are going to come after us like a pack of howling baboons. Transhumanist research will be as illegal as marijuana, and for the same reason.