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To the Editor: In the May 16 issue, three articles deal with public policy on stem-cell research.^1,2,3 The authors of all three articles agree that reproductive cloning should be banned but that research on therapeutic cloning (i.e., nuclear transplantation to produce human embryos as sources of stem cells) should be permitted. Annas justifies this compromise politically as the only way to avoid the dangers of unrestrained research.¹ Evers thinks that abuses could be prevented if European and other models of regulation were globalized.² Weissman suggests that scientists are best qualified to make informed decisions on the matter because of their . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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