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Ethical problems with cloning: Reproductive Cloning

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Ethical problems with cloning: Reproductive Cloning

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  3. Nuremberg Code (which was instituted after the Second World War)in this connection: “No experiment should be conducted (on human beings) where there is a clear reason to believe that death or a disabling injury will occur”. (For more quotes from the Declaration of Helsinki, see annexure 1)

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  7. Ethical problems with cloning: Reproductive Cloning In other words, what are the ethical problems we have with making another person exactly like your self.

  8. 1.The state of the art in research cannot guarantee successful cloning of normal human beings. So they will still have to do a lot of experiments and in the process kill many people (embryos) in order to perfect the technique.

  9. 2)It would be open to abuse by criminals and tyrants and dictators.

  10. 4)    Another problem with reproductive cloning is the psychological effect it would have on the cloned person. The expectations placed upon such a cloned child may be too much to bear. Here the tyrannical nature of the act is exposed: the prospects that the cloned child would be expected to be like the parent are even stronger than a child born by pro-creation; such a child will not only be like the parent, but virtually an exact copy of the parent. Consequently the choice to be or not to be like the parent is destroyed. The child may have very little choice and there will be much more pressure on him/her to loose his/her individuality.

  11. 5)The last problem one would have with reproductive cloning is that this child will loose his/her individual uniqueness. This is characteristic of all other human beings in the world - they are all unique. To quote from the Midrash: “The king stamps the coin; all the coins are the same. But the King of Kings makes each one of us unique”. That distinctive appearance is a visible sign of the uniqueness of the individual; it is the visible sign of the never-to-be-repeated life.

  12. Ethical problems with cloning: Therapeutic cloning You are experimenting in the wrong way with human beings and killing them to help others

  13. Ethical problems with genetic engineering: Enhancement Engineering Who’s value system will be used?

  14. Ethical problems with genetic engineering: Therapeutic Enginering At this stage not possible but no grave objections

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