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October 19, 2023

Bring Back the President’s Council on Bioethics

Technology is progressing rapidly, while policy stagnates.

In the 1990s, the possibility of using genetic technology to clone animals, and even humans, raised previously unheard-of ethical questions, as did the promise and moral hazards of stem-cell research. George W. Bush formed the President’s Council on Bioethics to study and address these issues, but Donald Trump let the institution lie dormant, as has his successor. With new challenges arising—such as sex-changes and gene-editing—and the likelihood that the near future will bring even greater advances in medicine, Seth Higgins argues that it’s time to revive this institution:

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