THE KASS BIOETHICS COUNCIL has issued its report. The Post is treating the results as mixed, but anti-cloning people are crowing while researchers say the process was political.

But as I wrote in May, it doesn’t really matter. Bush has already made up his mind to oppose cloning, making the Kass Council a sideshow at best, phony political window-dressing at worst. The big news, if there’s any, is that the Council, despite looking stacked, was so closely divided. This suggests that anticloning legislation is going to continue to have trouble in Congress. That’s as it should be, since it’s none of Congress’s constitutional business anyway.

Here’s a link to the report. I’m going to try to read it later, though I’m very pressed for time, trying to get a project finished today. In the meantime, you can read this FoxNews column of mine from February, and see if you think the report answers the objections set out there.

UPDATE: Virginia Postrel hasn’t weighed in on this yet (in fact, she hasn’t posted in two weeks) but I imagine she will, soon. Meanwhile, Charles Murtaugh has a post.