A couple of days ago we found Brian Alexander’s Times magazine piece on the First Amendment and rights to research, specifically rights to clone. Brian commented that we were a bit too harsh. Now Wesley Smith comes to the debate with a quickly penned response to Alexander in the Weekly Standard. If you are scratching your head about the comments by Leon Kass in the Alexander essay, to the effect that Kass would “rather not think about” the constitutionality question, don’t despair. Smith is only too happy to clarify the evils of a 1st Amendment argument. This is truly new territory for the neocon bioethics crowd – kind of like their adventure in human nature theory – and it makes for great reading.
Labels: Brian Alexander, cloning, cloning prohibitions, embryos, first amendment, laws, neocon bioethics, rights to research, Wesley Smith