The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
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The US President's Council on Bioethics [3] was an organization [4] headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush [5] on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush [5] created the President's Council on Bioethics [3] (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning [6] and embryonic stem cell research [7] debate, the Council stated that it worked to address arguments about ethics from many different perspectives. The organization [4] enacted a model for analyzing bioethical issues through deliberation instead of through the consensus approach. US President Barack Obama [8] replaced the PCB in 2009 with his Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
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