Obama: Proper Use of Bioethics Commission

Summer Johnson, PhD
May 24, 2010

Why do I say this bodes well for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues?

The President had the presence of mind, for one, to remember that he has a bioethics commission and to use it for precisely what it was created to do, to in the words of its charter "identify and examine specific bioethical, legal and social issues related to the potential impacts of advances...in science and technology."

And ta-da! Here is what some have called one of the most important advances in biology in decades.

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