Human reproductive cloning is unethical because it undermines autonomy: commentary on Savulescu.
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Human reproductive cloning is unethical because it undermines autonomy: commentary on Savulescu.
I believe that there is a personal right, ethically based, to individuality, autonomy, and identity. This right correlates with the right not to be seen primarily as a "means", but is more fundamental. Reproductive cloning crosses a significant boundary in removing the single most important feature of autonomy: the fact that each of us is genetically unique and individual. Our genetic identity ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.25.2.96