Cloning Bioethics Applied

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• - Student project introducing the science, compares artificial and natural methods, and presents for and against arguments.
  
• - Embryo research and the status of the early embryo is examined by Paul Lauritzen argues for a middle ground between those who argue that the embryo is a person and those who say it is property.
  
• - Explains the Catholic Church's opposition to cloning and stem-cell research on human embryos, with resources from a Catholic ethicist, Pope John Paul II and others.
  
• - Twins are feared in many cultures, and sometimes one is killed at birth, does this affect peoples perception of cloning? [Gene Letter]
  
• - Ethics and future of cloning animals, humans.
  
• - Articles by Prof. Dr. Schirmacher analyzes the postmodern condition and descision of the world to clone humans with media and describes our fundamental activity as Homo generator.
  
• - Pro-life perspective on human cloning by Wesley J. Smith from National Review Online
  
• - Ethics body backs cloning move. Report seeks legalisation of embryo research to tackle disease. [News Unlimited]
  
• - Article by Christopher Mario, with a background on the issue and the controversy, and interviews with experts. [Princeton Info]
  
• - Tim Beardsley writes how a sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas. [Scientific American]
  
• - The announcement that a team of British scientists had successfully cloned an adult sheep has touched off a new wave of discussion over the ethical implications of such a feat. [CNN]
  
• - Dr Malpani's view on why we need to explore cloning scientifically
  
• - Conducted by the Church of Scotland, the SRT project is an interdisciplinary working group of experts (including Ian Wilmut), covering both human and non-human animal cloning.
  
• - Paper by Arthur Derse, MD, JD on the ethics of reproductive human cloning
  
• - Rosa Beddington, UK National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill Essays.
  
• - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of the ethics of cloning.
  
• - It may be unnatural, but encouraging genetic choice in humans is not bad. (It's also inevitable.) Says Oliver Morton. [Wired Magazine]
  
• - Featuring videos, articles and ebook against animal and human cloning; by Dr Patrick Dixon.
  
• - Short introduction to the results of banning cloning, with links to other opinion sites, and bills. [Reason Magazine]