But they are also trained to look clinically at their work and at least to try to put emotions and subjective criteria aside. Large segments of the scientific community are comfortable with cloning. I don't see any great moral debate. Yet ethicists and theologians who oppose human cloning are concerned about the very nature of the discussion. Calls for caution and even Clinton's request for a five-year hiatus may not be enough to stop lab research once it has started.
People never go full steam ahead.
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