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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By NBC News/WSJ, NBC / Wall Street Journal | 01.01.1998

Do you favor or oppose an outright ban on the cloning of human beings?

 

Favor Oppose Not Sure
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By Fox News, Fox News | 03.05.1997

As you may know, scientists have made advances in cloning, where they can reproduce a whole animal from a single...

By CNN/Time, CNN/Time | 02.28.1997

A February 1997 CNN/Time poll of 1,005 American adults, with a margin of error of 3%, found:

  • 93% felt that...
By CNN/USA Today/Gallup, CNN/USA Today/Gallup | 02.23.1997

 

If humans could ever be cloned, it would be a bad thing for humanity 87
Human cloning would be...
By ABC, ABC | 02.01.1997

If it becomes possible, do you think the cloning of humans should or should not be allowed?

 

Yes No...
By Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust | 01.01.1997
Human cloning should never be allowed and all research should be stopped.
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Cloning research should continue under strict controls...
By Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (New York; Pantheon, 1997) | 11.30.1996

A friend of mine recently questioned my interest in a custody battle covered on the evening news. A surrogate mother...

By Philip L. Bereano, Seattle Times | 02.26.1996

"If homosexuality is inherited, shouldn't it have died out by now?"- two women talking in a New Yorker cartoon.

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