May’s issued a statement now:
I have completed with great pleasure a two-year term on the President’s Council on Bioethics. That is what I expected to do when I accepted
appointment. From the outset, both by the roster of council members and in
his conduct of meetings, the chair of the council, Dr. Leon Kass, sought
to develop both sides of issues in bioethics as fully as possible so as to
produce documents that would be a continuing resource in our national
deliberations. I expect him to continue to do so and have expressed my
willingness to serve as a consultant in that effort. This willingness
grows out of great respect for Dr. Kass and, of course, for my diverse
former colleagues on the council.
William F. May, PhD
Fellow of the Institute for Practical Ethics And Public Life, University
of Virginia,
Professor Emeritus of Southern Methodist University