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While debates over genetic biomedical innovation have not yet reached a status worthy of the metaphorical invocation of war, the battle has begun. Preceding the U.S. House of Representatives vote in July to ban human cloning, including the cloning of embryos for research, University of Chicago, Illinois, bioethicist Leon Kass publicly endorsed the ban as a means to seize the initiative and to gain some control of the biotechnical project, which he, and others, believe to be the eugenic redesign of future generations. The one known fact about the U.S. President George W. Bush's bioethics council is that Kass has been appointed as its chair.