Randolfe W Wickler-the first pro cloning activist

 

[This article is a summary of the original article posted at the Clone rights website: http://www.clonerights.com/about_our_founder.htm   ]

Mr. Wicker founded the world's first activist pro-human-cloning group, the Clone Rights United Front,immediately after the announcement of Dolly's birth.

Shortly thereafter, Wicker commenced a career of championing human cloning, reproductive, religious and scientific freedom on radio shows across the country.

On June 25,1997 Clone Rights activists attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Forum on Cloning” in Washington, D.C., where they supplied press packets to all those attending, personally gave Ian Wilmut both literature and pro-cloning buttons, and challenged the totally anti-cloning panels repeatedly from the floor during their day long six hour event.

In 1999, Randolfe Wicker became a member of the Board of Directors of the Human Cloning Foundation. He continues to serve in that capacity.

As the first Human Cloning Activist, Mr. Wicker has been described by WIRED MAGAZINE, February 2001, as “the face of the Human Cloning Foundation…a one-stop resource for science news and rumors, and for people who want to be cloned and those who say they’ll do it”. (Pg. 131).

TIME MAGAZINE, February 19, 2001 says that as “…”spokesman for the Human Cloning Foundation, he is the face of cloning fervor in the U.S. ” Mr. Wicker ’s extensive contacts among those wanting to use cloning enabled him to put TIME reporters in contact with the five infertile couples featured in that article as well as with others wanting to use cloning for other purposes.

He has been a featured speaker at Boston University's International Student Bioethics Initiative, debated cloning at Haverford University and was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual Biotech Conference in Harrisonburg, Virginia in March, 2002.

Proposals to ban therapeutic cloning have made Mr. Wicker a familiar guest on many television programs where he debates those supporting the legislation endorsed by President Bush.