THREE YEARS AGO, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack signed a law banning all human cloning (both for research and for reproduction). But he has just shifted his position 180 degrees, calling upon the state’s legislature to legalize human cloning for biomedical research. But rather than just admit he was wrong to sign the original bill, he has instead lied about the current state of human cloning science (somatic cell nuclear transfer), and then bootstrapped this own false assertion as justification for his change of heart.
This is what Vilsack’s said in his 2006 state-of-the-state address to rationalize his altered political position:
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