“Gekloond kind geboren in Nederland”
Voor wie waar daar verder over wil praten, het typisch Amerikaanse discussiestuk The Ethics of Human Cloning [pdf-formaat, 202 KByte]
If human cloning does become a practical reality, is it a reality we humans should countenance? Leon R. Kass and James Q. Wilson share a fundamental aversion to the notion of human cloning, but their reticence derives from different views of the importance of sexual reproduction, the role of the family, and the likely social consequences of human cloning. Professor Kass argues that in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies that place the origin of human life literally in human hands have led to the continuing erosion of respect for the mystery of sexuality and human renewal. In his view, permitting human cloning would be a drastic further step in the weakening of human respect for the profundity of sexual union and would lead to the replacement of procreation by manufacturing. Professor Wilson, in contrast, argues that the biology of conception is largely incidental: cloning presents no special ethical risks if society does all in its power to establish that the child is born to a married woman and is the joint responsibility of the married couple. In his view, with proper social (including legal) protections and support for the institution of marriage, cloning could be, like in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood, a limited, beneficial, and ethically untroubling practice for infertile married couples.
[x]#298 fan zaterdag 4 januari 2003 @ 20:16:32
lieuwe op 9 januari 2003 @ 17:09:03
Ik kom it tichste by Wilson syn tinkwize.