I have the privilege of being one of the founding members of the Franklin Society, which has created the below petition. I urge Politech members to read the links below and consider signing the petition.
Bush statement yesterday endorsing cloning ban: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020410-4.html The Brownback bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01899: It says: "It shall be unlawful for any person or entity... to perform or attempt to perform human cloning or to participate in an attempt to perform human cloning" News articles: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/politics/11CLON.html http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51713,00.html http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-vpqkin102662617apr10001622.story http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992148 http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cloning -Declan --- From: "Nick Gillespie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Declan@Well. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: pro-therapeutic cloning petition Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:40:14 -0400 Declan, This might be something that both you and the Politech list would be interested in: My predecessor at Reason, Virginia Postrel, has founded a network called the Franklin Society, whose current project is an pro-therapeutic cloning petition. As you know, George W. Bush is urging the Senate to follow the House of Representative's lead and ban all human cloning, so the time to speak is now. The document is online at <http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html>http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.<http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html>html I encourage you to check it out and add your name to the list, and to the network, too. Thanks, Nick ************** Nick Gillespie Editor-in-Chief REASON magazine <http://www.reason.com/>www.reason.com c/o 1013 S. Locust St. Oxford, OH 45056 Phone: 513.523.6505 Cell: 513.255.5151 Fax: 513.523.5443 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
