Human Cloning Bioethics

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• - August 2000 article from Guardian Unlimited.
  
• - South African Medical Journal (2002) article looking at the ethics and politics of government attempts to outlaw embryo stem cell research (therapeutic cloning research).
  
• - Resources, links and scientific information on vertebrate, mammalian and human reproductive cloning.
  
• - An excerpt from Breaking Bioethics columnist Glenn McGee's new book: The Human Cloning Debate.
  
• - Online debate between Gregory Stock director of the science, society, and technology at UCLA and Glenn McGee senior faculty associate at the Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania. [HotWired]
  
• - Essay highlighting the implications of this new powerful technology and its possible influences.
  
• - Rabbi Michael J. Broyde looks at many sides of this issue and whether it should be allowed under Jewish Law.
  
• - United Kingdom government commission examing research and ethical issues in therapeutic cloning-related research.
  
• - Ethical concerns involved with the potential for human cloning.
  
• - Ronald Bailey asks what exactly is wrong with cloning people. [Reason Magazine]
  
• - In response to the "playing God" argument, Dorothy C. Wertz has compiled what some religions' "true perspectives" on cloning are. [Gene Letter]
  
• - The scientists who created say research must be allowed if the breakthrough represented by Dolly the sheep is to benefit people. [Guardian Unlimited]
  
• - Ministers rejected experts' advice to allow British scientists to clone human embryos for medical research. [Guardian Unlimited]
  
• - Douglas Dunn examines ethical considerations. Written by an identical twin (one of "nature's clones").
  
• - Commentary by Dr. Patrick Dixon, Director of Global Change Ltd. and author of the Genetic Revolution.
  
• - Political organization that supports reproductive human cloning.
  
• - Promoting education, awareness, and research with emphasis on the possible rewards.
  
• - A lower-level university paper discussing both sides of the ethics of human cloning.
  
• - Thorough Report by the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.
  
• - By Bruce Robinson of ReligousTolerance.org.
  
• - What people fear isn't the science but the attack on human distinctiveness says Martin E. Mary. [The Lutheran]
  
• - Anti human cloning website.
  
• - With original, innovative programs and proprietary laboratory experimentation that can produce unmatched quality, the company expects to play a key role in transforming reproduction as we know it today into a persuasive, end-to-end, revenue-producing medi
  
• - Warns politicians not to play God with this policy issue.
  
• - Bioethics article by U Schuklenk, RE Ashcroft on ethical issues of reproductive human cloning, therapeutic human cloning research, and embryo stem cell research.
  
• - In the debate over cloning, it's still pro-choice vs. pro-life. It shouldn't be. [Mother Jones]
  
• - A conference at the University of San Francisco featuring scientific explanation with ethical and public policy debate.
  
• - Interactive site that creates a journal of your own private ethical issues, including human cloning.
  
• - How cloning science has evolved over the last two hundred years.
  
• - By Dorothy C. Wertz, PhD, a Senior Scientist in Division of Social Science, Ethics, and Law at the Shriver Center for Mental Retardation in Waltham, MA. [Gene Letter]
  
• - Summaries of Federal and State laws, by the UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life.
  
• - Information and sound files of the United States president's statements concerning this issue. [CNN.com]
  
• - An assessment by infertility doctors, a bioethicist and a geneticist on FrontLine, an investigative journalism series on PBS. Quiz, videos, discussion, and transcripts from the broadcast.
  
• - A discussion forum about human cloning, reproductive cloning and related cloning breakthroughs. The politics, science, ethics, problems, issues and related topics. We welcome all pro-cloning advocates, scientists, individuals and groups.
  
• - The scientists who created Dolly the sheep renew their call for the British government to allow limited research. [BBC News]
  
• - General information regarding genetic engineering, such as: legal and ethical issues, research, and legislation.
  
• - Many years ago, British scientists had recommended limited research in using human embryos to create cloned tissue. But growing concern about the rapid advancement of technology has led the British government to extend a ban on human cloning. [Wired News]
  
• - Dorothy C. Wertz, Ph.D. lists the most frequently unfounded arguments and gives scientific responses. [Gene Letter]
  
• - Response to British government commission recommending the lift of a ban. [Washington Post]
  
• - The research center where Dolly the sheep was cloned by Dr. Wilmut in 1996.
  
• - Probe Ministries' articles on science from a Christian perspective.
  
• - A special focus on this controversial issue by Leadership University, a site sponsored by Christian Leadership Ministries.
  
• - Commentary on the necessity of human cloning. There is no imperative for human cloning by Dr. Thomas Dooley. Part of the ALtuis Biomedical Network.
  
• - A public forum on the need for human cloning and a worldwide program of eugenics helping the human race improve. With a report on the science and their position on these issues.
  
• - Reports of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities.