"Alta Charo" (born 1958) is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leading American authority on bioethics. She holds appointments in both Wisconsin's law school and medical school.

Charo is among the leading advocates for embryonic stem cell research in the United States.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. in biology from Harvard University in 1979 and a Juris Doctor/J.D. from Columbia University in 1982. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.

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Everybody has understood that banking is crucial to moving the field forward. This is a concrete step, and we're doing it first.

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I think it is an act of medical malpractice to do human reproductive cloning when animal data shows how risky it is - how high the frequency is of miscarriage, birth defects and even life problems with other species. We've been unsuccessful at doing this in our closest animal relatives.

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I wouldn't have expected it to be quite as comprehensive and uniform across all groups.

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