Benjamin Rush quote

"UNLESS WE PUT MEDICAL FREEDOM INTO THE CONSTITUTION, THE TIME WILL COME WHEN MEDICINE WILL ORGANIZE INTO AN UNDERCOVER DICTATORSHIP . . . TO RESTRICT THE ART OF HEALING TO ONE CLASS OF MEN, AND DENY EQUAL PRIVILEGE TO OTHERS, WILL BE TO CONSTITUTE THE BASTILLE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. ALL SUCH LAWS ARE UN-AMERICAN AND DESPOTIC AND HAVE NO PLACE IN A REPUBLIC . . . THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS REPUBLIC SHOULD MAKE SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR MEDICAL FREEDOM AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM."
----Benjamin Rush, M.D., War Hero*

(This quote can also be found in the www.lightstreamers.com website in the current article under the "Dannion Brinkley" link.)

The reason I put this quote in here is because not only is it very important to our lives today, but also in varying ways it will apply to cloning.

There is more I would like to comment on about this particular subject, but if I do so it will be in a separate response post to this (because this in itself needs to stand alone, as Benjamin Rush's comment).
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*Earlier (before I modified this) I stated here that he was a signer of the U.S. Constitution as well, as I had recopied that (mis)information from somewhere. But after rechecking this on my own, I am not sure this is the case.