Wisconsin leaders moved quickly to condemn the state Senate’s passage of a ban on reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
“The failure of the Wisconsin State Senate to amend Assembly Bill 499, which effectively criminalizes a promising area of biomedical research, sends a frightening message to Wisconsin’s research community,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor John Wiley said in a prepared statement Wednesday.
“Scientists in many fields view this with alarm,” Wiley added. “It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific discovery.”
Gov. Jim Doyle also criticized the Senate’s action.