Cloning | Human Cloning Has Not Been Proven Harmful
Ruth Macklin is professor of bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
Summary: Theologians and many others want human cloning banned because it might violate the human dignity and rights of those cloned. However, it is unlikely that cloned persons would be treated as less than human because it would be so clearly unethical to do so. On the contrary, human cloning research has many possible benefits and should therefore not be banned.
Last week’s [February 23, 1997] news that scientists had cloned a sheep...
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