May 25, 2001
On Jews, Germans, and Clones
In March, Avi Ben-Abraham, an Israeli doctor, announced that he planned to clone a human being. I would have thought that Jews, of all people, would understand the dangers of playing with genetics. But no, it's not Jews who learned that lesson -- it's Germans. Wherever scientists start cloning people, trying to improve our genes, it won't happen in Germany.
I'm a Jew who became interested in the genetic revolution not as a Jew, but as a mother. It was the idea of prenatal testing that
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