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A wolf in sheep’s cloning?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hanley, Richard |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Cloning scares the hell out of people, because the idea of cloning people scares the hell out of people. Some of this fear is well-founded. Like any new reproductive technology, the cloning of entire human organisms can be put to good or bad effect, for good or bad reasons. But much of the fear is not well-founded. Before you could say “Hello, Dolly,” the U.S. administration moved to ban federal funding of human cloning research; and there is considerable support in Congress for an outright ban on the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer technology for the purpose of human cloning. Why? Here is part of Clinton's statement announcing the funding ban: Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. I believe we must respect this profound gift and resist the temptation to replicate ourselves. This powerful rhetoric captures two very common intuitions concerning the putative wrongness of human cloning. First is the idea that something of ethical importance, present in normal procreation, must be missing in the cloning procedure or its product. Second is the description of cloning as “replication” rather than “reproduction,” with the implication that cloning is a threat to uniqueness. I think both of these common intuitions are entirely groundless, no matter what one's metaphysical starting point. |
| Starting Page | 59 |
| Ending Page | 62 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/BF03351218 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://udel.edu/~hanley/CLONE.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
