Cloning is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but is a reality that has become a serious subject of hot debate around the globe. At issue are the ethical, scientific, moral and economic implications of cloning.
In October 2004, David Stevens, Executive Director of the Christian Medical Association confronted scientific duplicity and specifically challenged the International Society for Stem Cell Research asking to stop misleading the public and the media by changing human cloning nomenclature (Christian Pp). Stevens was referring to a September 2004 statement by ISSCR president Leonard Zon encouraging researchers and the media to stop using the term, "cloning" because of its negative connotations (Christian Pp). Zon said, that "nuclear transfer" be used instead of "therapeutic cloning" because the term "cloning" does not accurately describe this biological process, whereby "cells generated by nuclear transfer are by no definition a clone of the donor of the transferred nucleus" (Christian Pp). Stevens charges that researches are trying to obscure the fact that they want to clone human embryos to get embryonic stem cells, and claims that "history has shown that verbal engineering facilitates social engineering...they simply change the terminology" (Christian Pp).
On November 18, 2004, it was reported that Italy had offered a compromise on human cloning allowing common ground among United Nation member states that are:sharply divided over competing treaties to ban the practice" (Wadhams Pp). Although it is too early to know whether the compromise will help, Belgian diplomat Marc Pecsteen said that progress was being made, however, "We need some more playing with words to find the compromise we need" (Wadhams Pp). The issue of a global treaty on human cloning has created a sharp rift in attitudes of the member states (Wadhams Pp). For example, a proposal from Costa Rica would ban all human cloning, while another from Belgium would ban reproductive cloning yet allow use of embryos for stem cell and other research (Wadhams Pp). The Costa Rican document has sixty-two co-sponsors, including the U.S. And Italy, while the Belgian proposal...
Human Cloning The subject of human cloning was once the stuff of science fiction novels and television programs. As technology and science improves, the creation of clones has become, potentially, a real likelihood in the impending future. For the follow, the definition of human cloning is that which has been designated by the American Medical Association: The term "cloning" will refer to the production of genetically identical organisms via somatic cell nuclear
Ethics of Human Cloning Genetic engineering and cloning have played important roles in agriculture for many generations. Bananas and seedless grapes, for example, are, quite literally, living genetic clones (Krock, 2001). Prior to the last decade of the 20th Century, human cloning was purely a subject of science fiction, but by the dawn of the 21st Century, researchers had already cloned several mammals successfully. In 1978, medical science had progressed to the
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