Clone Wars Redux

The Republican-dominated 108th Congress will fight again over whether or not to criminalize human cloning. Two wildcards–the new Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, who is a transplant surgeon, may end up in the pro-cloning column because he recognizes the potential value of cloned embyronic stem cells as perfect transplant tissues. Second, several groups including the Raelian UFO cultists are claiming that a cloned baby will soon be born.