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Human Reproductive cloning

Human Reproductive cloning. Professor: Helena Pereira de Melo Student : Manuela Maria Brito April 2014. Clone: Klôn ( twig ) Human Cloning : Therapeutic Cloning Reproductive Cloning Embryo splitting Nuclear transfer. Mithology Religion Science Increase of life expectancy

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Human Reproductive cloning

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  1. HumanReproductivecloning Professor: Helena Pereira de Melo Student: Manuela Maria Brito April 2014

  2. Clone: Klôn(twig) • HumanCloning: • TherapeuticCloning • ReproductiveCloning • Embryosplitting • Nuclear transfer

  3. Mithology • Religion • Science • Increase of life expectancy • Progress in medicine and pharmaceutical sciences • Planned parenthood • Medically assisted reproductive technologies

  4. Society • Women’semancipation • Legal abortion • Divorce • Adoption • Same sexmarriage • FamilyParadigm

  5. Is humanity really progressing? • Extreme social inequality • Discrimination • Colonialist spirit • Eugenic ambitions

  6. Are societies as developed as science? Are we ready to fabricate ourselves? • What’s the role of Law?

  7. Willthebenefitsmakeup for therisks? • Infertility cases • To savesomeone’slife(leukaemia) • Negative eugenics • Same sex couples

  8. Risks • Diminish the sense of uniqueness • Division among people (discrimination, slavery, “Girl Babies Group”) • “Racism starts when we say ‘they’re all the same’. For a racist the individual is just a carrier of a pre-belonging.” (Marc Augé) • Positive eugenics • Only affordable to some people • Transformation in family structure • The burden to follow someone else’s path

  9. “It is wiser not to adventure in the cloning techniques, given to the imperfection of those… who are not clones.”(Roger-Pol Droit) • “Shouldn’t we educate people instead?” (Scientists pro cloning)

  10. Theprincipleofhumandignity • Theprincipleof non instrumentalizationofhumanbeings • Kant’s formula: “So act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.”

  11. “According to whichcriteriashouldwe decide? Whowill decide, thedoctors, thetechnicians, thesociety, theparents? Whowillbebornandaccording to whichcriteria?” (Nadine Fresco)

  12. Lawframework • 30 countries bannedhumancloning • 15 countries bannedreproductivehumanclonning • 13 North americanstates ban reproductive cloning and 3 states prohibit use of public funds for cloning research • UN • EU • JAPAN CASE

  13. Case • 1.1 A childisdiagnosedwithleukaemiaand there is no “matching” donor. He needs someone with the same genetic material. There is the possibility of cloning him and therefore saving him. Hisparents are lookingforwardraisinganotherchild. • 1.2 A childisdiagnosedwithleukaemiaandhisparents decide to conceive a child in order to savehim. Does thisrespecttheprincipleof non instrumentalization?

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