There is a USA President's Council on Bioethics : http://www.bioethics.gov

They have a number of reports on which they are inviting comments:
Cloning Stem Cells Reproduction Beyond Therapy

Regardless of what the president's "makeshift" ethics council may sound like, it is nothing more than another political arm of Bush's agenda. This council has removed anyone who doesn't subscribe to "the" agenda, whatever that may happen to be at the whim of the president. It is not based on the scientific community at large. They have what we in the Transhumanist community call a "deathist" attitude. Leon Kass, the president of this so-called ethics council has even stated that he believes that we all have a right, a duty to die. He also has stated that he believes that death is what gives life dignity.

The Transhumanists have a much more optimistic, positive, and forward-thinking view of where nano- bio- information- and cognitive sciences should be allowed to take humanity. Would you agree that:

(1) Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the future. We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.

(2) Systematic research should be put into understanding these coming developments and their long-term consequences.

(3) By being generally open and embracing of new technology we have a better chance of turning it to our advantage than if we try to ban or prohibit it.

(4) We should advocate the moral right for those who so wish to use technology to extend their mental and physical (including reproductive) capacities and to improve their control over their own lives. We seek personal growth beyond our current biological limitations.

(5) In planning for the future, it is mandatory to take into account the prospect of dramatic progress in technological capabilities. It would be tragic if the potential benefits failed to materialize because of technophobia and unnecessary prohibitions. On the other hand, it would also be tragic if intelligent life went extinct because of some disaster or war involving advanced technologies.

(6) We need to create forums where people can rationally debate what needs to be done, and a social order where responsible decisions can be implemented.

(7) We should advocate the well-being of all sentience, either in artificial intellects, humans, posthumans, or non- human animals) and encompasses many principles of modern humanism.

Transhumanism does not support any particular party, politician or political platform.

If you'd like to see a more optimistic, forward-thinking view of where technology should be taking humanity, please visit the Journal of Evolution and Technology at:

http://jetpress.org/

and the World Transhumanist Association at:

http://www.transhumanism.org/

This all sounds like common sense to me, but GWB was returned to office by residents of the bible belt, so it's clear what his policies are going to be.