RONALD M. GREEN

Therapeutic cloning research was approved last January by a large majority of the British Parliament. This means that British researchers will soon be publishing reports of their research techniques in international science journals. Leading American scientists, frustrated by the unwelcoming research environment here, will join them overseas. The Human Cloning Prohibition Act therefore cannot possibly prevent an increase in knowledge about cloning technology. It can only deprive Americans of the medical benefits that therapeutic cloning will bring.

Therapeutic cloning research was approved last January by a large majority of the British Parliament. This means that British researchers will soon be publishing reports of their research techniques in international science journals. Leading American scientists, frustrated by the unwelcoming research environment here, will join them overseas. The Human Cloning Prohibition Act therefore cannot possibly prevent an increase in knowledge about cloning technology. It can only deprive Americans of the medical benefits that therapeutic cloning will bring.