Although a number of organizations support reproductive human cloning as part of a larger techno-eugenic, post-human or libertarian agenda, a few take reproductive cloning as their primary and explicit focus.
Randolfe Wicker's virtual organizing in favor of human
cloning
The most visible organizations in support of reproductive cloning are virtual—i.e., websites that network individual activities—associated with New York activist Randolfe Wicker. Wicker began organizing in support of reproductive human cloning in 1997 and has established these three sites since then:
- Clone Rights United Front - http://www.clonerights.com/
Wicker's political action effort - Human Cloning Foundation - http://www.humancloning.org/
The central website for Wicker's "cloning movement." It provides a forum for pro-cloning discussion and advocacy through message boards and pro-cloning resources. - The Reproductive Cloning Network
- http://www.reproductivecloning.net/
This claims to be "a neutral cloning information site," but most of the information is clearly pro-cloning.
Science of Mammalian Cloning -
http://home.cfl.rr.com/chaosdriven/
This site promotes "human reproductive freedom" through cloning, and is aimed at scientists. It contains a public discussion board entitled "The Science of Cloning," links to relevant scientific articles, and a published scientific protocol for cloning.
Mark Eibert
California attorney Mark Eibert is preparing to challenge laws
banning human reproductive cloning, and to use legal challenges
proactively to establish reproductive cloning as a legal activity.
http://reason.com/opeds/eibert.shtml
http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/03282001Hearing141/Eibert214.htm
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Darnovsky, "The Misstep of Human Cloning," San Francisco Chronicle
(January 6, 2003)
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