Cloning | Human Cloning Experiments Should Be Allowed
Ronald Bailey is a contributing editor of Reason, a monthly magazine of politics and economics.
Summary: The news that scientists had successfully cloned an adult sheep prompted many premature calls to ban human cloning. There is no ethical reason to ban research aimed at human cloning. The fear that cloning will be used to produce second-class human beings is unfounded because cloning simply will not become widespread.
By now everyone knows that Scottish biotechnologists have cloned a sheep. They took a cell from a 6-year-old...
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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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