Cloning
Cloning Bibliography
The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.
Cloning Annotated Bibliography
The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.
Harris, John. Clones, Genes, and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
On the UN's Failure to Pass an Anti-Cloning Treaty
Recent efforts to ban human cloning through the United Nations have apparently failed. The final outcome likely will be a “less powerful, nonbinding declaration that would include language ambiguous enough to please both sides.”1 In other words, this august body is rising to the challenge of finding words that will mean all things to all people and therefore will mean nothing at all.
Human Cloning: What's at Stake
Amid the current debate over cloning not nearly enough attention is being paid to the children who may be produced through cloning. When attention is paid to the clones themselves, often people ask: Are clones human beings? Are they of the same moral status as the rest of us? Do they have souls?
Clones from Newcastle
In a move that should surprise no one, the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has licensed researchers at the University of Newcastle to clone human embryos.
For some time Britain has had the most liberal policy in the world on embryo experimentation, permitting research on very young embryos. In 2001, British law was changed to allow the cloning of human embryos for the purposes of research, as long as the embryos were so-called “spare embryos” that would be discarded anyway.
Cloning Twist Clouds Ethical Complexities
Scientists attending the April 2003 Human Genome Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico claimed that a new technique could overcome ethical and safety objections to reproductive cloning.1 This technique would involve the creation of a cloned human embryo, from whom embryonic stem (ES) cells would be extracted and stimulated to develop into presumably healthy sperm or eggs (a process known as gametogenesis).
The Interface Between Science and Ethics: Probing the Deeper Questions
Debates over bioethical issues necessarily involve people from diverse circles. Scientists, health care professionals, lawyers, clergy, and representatives from other disciplines join formally trained bioethicists in assessing the appropriateness of various forays within medicine and biotechnology. It is my hypothesis that the way scientists think is often so fundamentally different that the "answers" to bioethical issues offered by the non-scientific community are perceived as (at best) only minimally relevant by those who are actually pursuing the research in question.
Clonación humana
Traducido por: Alejandro Field
Vivimos en "un mundo feliz" en el cual las técnicas reproductivas están arrasando además de aumentando familias. Las variaciones de la situación en la que "la madre del bebé es también abuela y hermana"1 son cada vez más frecuentes. A veces son necesarias medidas extremas a fin de tener el tipo de hijo que deseamos.
Human Cloning
We live in a brave new world in which reproductive technologies are ravaging as well as replenishing families. Increasingly common are variations of the situation in which "baby's mother is also grandma-and sister."1 Sometimes extreme measures are necessary in order to have the kind of child we want.
To Clone or Not to Clone? Reflections from the Executive Director of the President's Council on Bioethics
Somewhere on earth right now the first human clone is journeying toward birth, innocent of the headlines and the history that he or she will make simply by being born.
