An ethical wake-up call

| R. Albert Mohler

The clonal age is here. We cannot say that we were not warned. Nobel laureate James D. Watson (co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA molecule) predicted the coming of "clonal man" more than 30 years ago. He called for society to make hard decisions about the morality and legality of cloning technologies, warning, "If we do not think about it now, the possibility of our having a free choice will one day suddenly be gone."

The Nov. 25 announcement from Advanced Cell Technologies (ACT) that the company had cloned several embryos was carefully scripted. The company made arrangements with U.S. News and World Report and Scientific American to give the story top coverage. The actual research report was released through

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