Libertarian Advocacy
The issues of cloning and techno-eugenics have motivated libertarian organizations and activists.
U.S. Libertarian Party - http://www.lp.org/
As early as 1997 the Libertarian Party came out in support of human reproductive cloning. http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=86
Reason magazine - http://reason.com
Reason draws on libertarian values to advocate for human reproductive cloning and genetic modification. Its science editor, Ron Bailey, writes and speaks extensively on these topics.
http://www.reason.com/biclone.shtml
The Franklin Society - http://www.franklinsociety.org/index.html
A libertarian science-and-technology advocacy group organized by former Reason editor Virginia Postrel. It circulated a petition signed by 1000 people opposing efforts to ban research cloning.
http://www.franklinsociety.org/petition.html
The Ayn Rand Institute - http://www.aynrand.org
Promotes the "objectivist" (libertarian, pro-capitalist) philosophy of Ayn Rand. Institute spokesperson Alex Epstein writes that parents "should have the right to play God with the genetic makeup of their children," and that cloning researchers should not be "shackled by their government" but "celebrated as the heroes they are." http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/virtueofplayinggod.shtml