Human Cloning -
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrilsthe breath of life; and man became a livingsoul . . . and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman and brought her unto man.”
Human cloning is becoming one of the most controversial topics of our time. With recent technological breakthroughs, whole new fields are opening with amazing possibilities. Despite the great advantages that cloning can offer humanity, there are just as many negative aspects of the technology, which have given way to large anti-cloning groups who are gaining ground as to the ...
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(religoustolerance). Although the ban was lifted during the first days of Bill Clinton’s presidency, in 1997 he sent a bill to congress marked “immediate consideration and prompt enactment” stating that it would be illegal to create a human clone whether in private or public laboratories. Along with the US ban, nineteen European countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Sweden, Macedonia, and Turkey, signed a protocol that would commit their countries to ban by law any intervention seeking to create human beings genetically identical to another human being, whether living or
dead. It rules out any exception to the ban, even in the case of a completely sterile couple. Britain and Germany however, did not sign this agreement. Germany claims that the protocol would be weaker than the anti-research laws they already have, while Britain strongly supports their decision to enforce freedom. ...
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no further. They might have had the potential to develop further and even mature into a viable fetus, except the original ovum was defective and would have died anyway. For ethical reasons, the researchers selected embryos that had no possibility of ever maturing. The main motive of the experiment seems to have been to trigger public debate on the ethics of human cloning (religioustolerance).
Dr. Steven Muller headed a panel in the US whose mandate was to produce preliminary cloning guidelines. These would be used by the federal National Institute of Health to decide which cloning research to fund. The panel recommended that studies be limited to the use of embryos that developed ...
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