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Response to Special Section: “Cloning: Technology, Policy, and Ethics” (CQ Vol 7, No 2)

But What If We Feel That Cloning Is Wrong?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2001

Matti Häyry
Affiliation:
Philosophy at the University of Kuopio, Finland

Abstract

The idea of cloning adult human beings often gives rise to objections involving mad dictators producing copies of themselves, or deranged billionaires who want to live forever. But what about situations where we can more readily understand and accept the reasons for creating a clone? Consider, for instance, the case of parents who have simultaneously lost their newly born child and found out that they cannot have any more children of their own by other known methods. Would it be wrong of them to want a new child, a genetic copy of the lost infant, if the child were healthy and could only be produced by cloning the infant who no longer lives? And would it be wrong of genetic engineers to assist them?

Type
RESPONSES AND DIALOGUE
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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