Cloning | Animal Cloning May Be Acceptable Even If Human Cloning Is Unethical
Thomas H. Murray is director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
Summary: The cloning of an adult sheep is an incredible achievement, but many questions remain before this scientific advance will have practical benefits for humans. Ethical questions must be considered and addressed before human cloning research is permitted, but animal cloning research should not be banned.
Editor’s note: The following remarks were...
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