IN THIS ESSAY, Iwill CONSIDER the ethics of reproductive and therapeutic cloning. But I
want also to advance a more general claim: that the cloning issue, and related debates …

Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of
human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his …

Neither therapeutic cloning nor reproductive cloning necessarily pose insurmountable
ethical obstacles. Two defences of therapeutic cloning are considered. The first defence, the …

Europe and the USA, that cloning humans is unethical and should be prohibited by criminal
law. Every time the debate comes up—after Ian Wilmut's first cloning experiments on …

One of the first books of its kind," Flesh of My Flesh" is a collection of articles by today's most
respected scientists, philosophers, bioethicists, theologians, and law professors about …

Some have objected to the laboratory cloning of human preembryos on the grounds that the
procedure would violate the dignity of and respect owed to human preembryos. Others have …

Some authors have argued that the human use of reproductive cloning and genetic
engineering should be prohibited because these biotechnologies would undermine the …

The recent announcement of a birth in the press has caused a sensation probably
unparalleled for two millennia and has highlighted the impact of the genetic revolution on …

Today biological science is rising on a wall of worry. No other science has advanced more
dramatically during the past several decades or yielded so many palpable improvements in …

Many people now believe that human reproductive cloning–once sufficiently safe and
effective–should be permitted on the grounds that it will allow the otherwise infertile to have …