Cloning | Human Cloning Would Violate the Dignity of Children
Gilbert Meilaender holds the Board of Directors Chair in Theological Ethics at Valparaiso University in Indiana.
Summary: Protestant Christian belief maintains that children should be the product of the sexual union of a man and a woman united in marriage, not only because this arrangement is in the best interest of the child but because it is in the interests of the man and woman as well. When children are begotten through the sexual union of two parents, they are equal in humanity to the parents. But if they were to be made by the parents through...
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Table of Contents
- 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
- Copyright
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