This book addresses the controversy over abortion. Covering interesting topics, including
the claim that certain items (paintings, people) have'intrinsic value'and should not be
destroyed; the thought that young human beings do not have a good of their own; and the
question whether the objection to murder turns on the violation of right to life.

Shaw continues 'In the case of couples for whom cloning remains the “only” option, the case
is more difficult, but cloning should not be permitted for [three] reasons: first, the parents'
wish to have [a] child “like any other” is self-negating as a clone would de facto be different;
secondly, the clone might suffer psychologically; and thirdly, cloning is not really the only
option when there are thousands of children seeking adoption. It is this cumulation of
specific and general potential harms which suggests that reproductive cloning ought to be …