In 2001 and 2002, several newspapers wrote articles about the emerging opposition to cloning and human genetic manipulation among feminists, environmentalists, liberals and progressives. Most press accounts reported this opposition as a "strange bedfellows" or "odd coalition" story, and failed to explain that the concerns of conservative opponents of cloning are very different from those that motivate pro-choice liberals or progressives.
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Tom
Abate, "Odd-couple Pairing in U.S. Cloning Debate: Abortion-rights
Activists Join GOP Conservative," San Francisco Chronicle
(August 9, 2001)
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Rick
Weiss, "Cloning Creates Odd Bedfellows," The Washington
Post (February 20, 2002)
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Gia
Fenoglio, "What Cloning Has Wrought," National Journal
Magazine (August 4, 2001)
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January 12, 2003)
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Richard
Willing, "Odd Mix of Activists Stands Together against Cloning,"
USA Today (July 16, 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010716/3484335s.htm
Sheryl
Gay Stolberg, "Some for Abortion Rights Lean Right in Cloning
Fight," The New York Times (January 24, 2002)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/24/politics/24CLON.html
- Judy Norsigian's letter to the editor in response to the
article acknowledges the similarities in positions while
emphasizing the important differences between supporters and
opponents of abortion rights.
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/clonyt.htm
Wesley J.
Smith, "Strange Clonefellows: The Left-right Anti-cloning
Coalition," The Weekly Standard (Vol. 7, No. 21, February 11,
2002)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/869vvfqt.asp
Kristen
Philipkoski, "Cloning Makes Strange Bedfellows," Wired (March
25, 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,51247,00.html
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