Q&A with Amy Gutmann of Presidential Commission for Study of Bioethical Issues

June 9, 2010

President Obama has appointed a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, replacing his predecessor’s President’s Council on Bioethics. Like the previous entity and similar ones before it, the group will advise the president on a wide range of difficult, controversial scientific issues. Previous presidential bioethics advisory panels have considered issues such as cloning and human embryonic stem cell research. (Washington Post)