Cloning - Human Embryos and Bioethics

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Human Embryos and Bioethics

The President's Council on Bioethics on July 11 recommended that a four-year moratorium be placed on all human cloning in the United States.

Many have called for cloning to be allowed in order to produce embryonic cells for medical research. The bioethics council itself was split on this subject. There are dangers of adopting an "ends justifies the means" mentality in this field.

It is intrinsically unjust to treat human beings at any stage of development as mere "research material" to be exploited and destroyed in the hope of benefiting others. That is why killing human beings in the blastocyst stage to harvest their stem cells would be morally wrong even if it did not lead to other horrors. No one should imagine, however, that it will not lead to other horrors. It certainly will.

As promising research possibilities come into view requiring the exploitation and destruction of developing human beings at later stages, pressure will mount to permit it. Having transgressed the basic principle of the inherent dignity and inviolability of the human being, no logically secure ground will be found to oppose destructive experimentation on later embryos, fetuses and eventually impaired newborns. ...

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