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Illegal Beings: Human Clones
Human cloning and 'posthuman' so
Blackford RMonash Bioeth Rev. 2005 Jan;24(1):10-26..
School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Australia.
Since early 1997, when the creation of Dolly the sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer was announced in Nature, numerous government reports, essays, articles and books have considered the ethical problems and policy issues surrounding human reproductive cloning. In this article, I consider what response a modern liberal society should give to the prospect of human cloning, if it became safe and practical. Some opponents of human cloning have argued that permitting it would place us on a slippery slope to a repugnant future society, comparable to that portrayed in Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World. I conclude that, leaving aside concerns about safety, none of the psychological or social considerations discussed in this article provides an adequate policy justification for invoking the state's coercive powers to prevent human cloning.
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Disclaimer: This abstract is being posted for educational purposes, as well as for comment and criticism, by the visitors to the Human Cloning Foundation website (www.HumanCloning.org ). This abstract is representative of a larger article that is indexed on Medline.
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