Virginia Postrel lauds New Jersey’s passage of a pro-cloning measure. As
Wesley Smith and I have written–in pieces to which Postrel links–this
measure allows the creation of cloned embryos, their gestation in the womb
through nine months, and then their destruction. Postrel does not dispute
this characterization of the bill, so I can only assume she supports the
killing of 8- and 9-month-old cloned fetuses for research purposes. She
suggests that federalists have to support letting states do this. Would good
federalists also have to support letting states authorize experiments that
kill 2-year-olds? Does Postrel’s support for federalism extend to opposition
to Roe v. Wade?