Cloning | Animal Cloning Experiments Will Be Beneficial to Humans
Ian Wilmut is an embryologist and cloning researcher at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Andrew Ross is managing editor of Salon, a monthly on-line magazine.
Summary: Human cloning research is ethically unacceptable due to the numbers of embryos that would be killed in such experiments. However, animal cloning research should be allowed because it can help scientists invent biomedical treatments for humans with serious diseases, produce organs for xenotransplantation (animalto- human organ transplants), and create healthier, more diseaseresistant...
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- Human Cloning Would Be Unethical
- Human Cloning Would Violate Christian Ethics
- Cloning Would Violate Human Dignity
- Human Cloning Would Violate the Dignity of Children
- Human Cloning Should Be Banned
- Animal Cloning Experiments Will Be Beneficial to Humans
- Animal Cloning May Be Acceptable Even If Human Cloning Is Unethical
- Cloning Can Be an Ethical Form of Human Reproduction
- Cloning Should Not Be Banned Out of Fear
- Human Cloning Has Not Been Proven Harmful
- Ethical Concerns About Cloning Are Misplaced
- Human Cloning Is Inevitable
- Human Cloning Experiments Should Be Allowed
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
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