UK legislation planned to outlaw human reproductive cloning

Emotional reactions to human reproductive cloning.

BACKGROUND Extant surveys of people's attitudes towards human reproductive cloning focus on moral judgements alone, not emotional reactions or sentiments. This is especially important given that some (especially Leon Kass) have argued against such cloning on the ground that it engenders widespread negative emotions, like disgust, that provide a moral guide. OBJECTIVE To provide some data on e...

Cloning Californians? Report of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning and recent cloning-related legislation.

Legislation of human cloning in the United States.

The United States scientific community dodged a bullet in the Senate earlier this year when an attempt by Senate Republican leaders to ban human cloning failed. The bill’s sponsors, Sen Christopher S. Bond, R-Mo, and Sen Bill Frist, R-Tenn, wanted to send the bill directly to a vote, avoiding the usual procedure of sending the legislation to a committee for study and possible hearings. Republic...

The ethics of human reproductive cloning.

This article addresses the question of whether human reproductive cloning could be ethically justifiable in at least some cases involving infertile couples who would choose cloning as a way to have a genetically related child. At present, the risk of congenital anomalies constitutes a compelling argument against human reproductive cloning. The article explores whether reproductive cloning could...

Reproductive cloning: can cloning harm the clone?

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