Cloning backers bank on science, timed to sway political debate.

Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | May 7, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Jeremy Manier

CHICAGO _ As the U.S. Senate nears a debate on competing bills to ban human cloning, supporters and opponents are marshaling arguments about a science that some see as a pathway to cures for ravaging diseases and others find unethical under any circumstances.

In a move timed to inject new science into the debate, a leading medical journal released several papers this week defending the use of cloning technology for research. The papers range from scientific justifications for research cloning to an account of how some European ...

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