The Blog  Cloning and the First State  With a dishonest bill
pending, Delaware looks to join New Jersey as a haven for human
cloning.  11:45 AM, Jan 16, 2004 • By WESLEY J. SMITH Widget
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CLONING ADVOCATES are playing a shell game with the American
people. At the federal level, they advocate the legalization of
human cloning but assert that cloned embryos should be destroyed
after 14 days of development and never implanted in wombs (the
Hatch / Feinstein Bill). But this is a diversionary political
tactic. Hatch / Feinstein's true purpose is to prevent passage
of a total federal ban on cloning by human somatic nuclear cell
transfer (SCNT), the Brownback / Landrieu bill. The Hatch forces
hope to divert enough votes so the Brownback bill cannot muster
the 60 votes necessary to break a Senate filibuster.  Meanwhile,
at the state level, the biotechnology industry is pursuing an
even more radical cloning agenda. Based on state legislation
that has recently pa