Kass replaced by Pellegrino

Dr. Edmund Pellegrino has replaced Dr. Leon Kass as head of the President's Bioethics Council. It should be interesting to watch the way Dr. Pellegrino and the PBC are treated and whether it's any different from the reception that Dr. Kass received these last four years. Wonder how long the honeymoon will last?

I wonder that anyone would serve this Administration, with the strong probability that he or she will be attacked simply because of that affiliation.


Dr. Pellegrino may prove to be every bit as conservative as Dr. Kass. From the CBHD website:

The ethical questions are related to the means by which these new treatments are developed and applied. Genetic manipulations, cybernetics, nanotechnology, and psychopharmacology are in themselves not intrinsically good nor bad morally. Procedures, however, derived from the destruction of human embryos, distortions and bypassing of normal reproductive processes, or cloning of human beings, etc., are not morally permissible no matter how useful they might be therapeutically.