Constitutional Cloning

DOES THE FIRST AMENDMENT guarantee the right to conduct research into human cloning?

The question seems silly. But, according to the article Free to Clone written by biotech enthusiast Brian Alexander for the September 26, 2004 New York Times Magazine, the answer may be, yes. Indeed, if the legal scholars and bioethicists Alexander interviewed are right, conducting experiments in human cloning–not to mention other equally controversial areas of scientific inquiry–will one day be as constitutionally guaranteed as is my writing of this article.