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The president's council on bioethics, led by Leon Kass, is taking heat from liberals and libertarians upset that it is allegedly stacked with supporters of the president's policies.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* The president's council on bioethics, led by Leon Kass, is taking heat from liberals and libertarians upset that it is allegedly stacked with supporters of the president's policies. They are complaining that it is getting more stacked, with opponents of those policies being kicked off the council and supporters being put on. In truth, the council is hardly in lockstep with the administration. Supporters of the president's policy were in the minority on the council when it considered the most controversial issue before it, human cloning. A majority of the council advocated a moratorium on cloning rather than the ...

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