Cloning people and Jewish law: a preliminary analysis.
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The relationship between modern technology, biomedical ethics and Jewish law has been well developed over the last fifty years. As has been noted in a variety of sources and in diverse contexts, Jewish law insists that new technologies — and particularly new reproductive technologies — are neither definitionally prohibited nor definitionally permissible in the eyes of Jewish law, but rather subject to a case-by-case analysis. Nonetheless, every legal, religious or ethical system has to insist that advances in technologies be evaluated against the touchstones of its moral systems. In the Jewish tradition, that touchstone is halacha, the corpus of Jewish law and ethics. This short paper is an attempt to create a preliminary and tentative analysis of the technology of cloning from a Jewish law perspective. Like all preliminary analyses, it is designed not to advance a rule that represents itself as definitive normative Jewish law, but rather to outline some of the issues in the hope that others will focus on the problems and analysis found in
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of halacha and contemporary society
دوره No. 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997