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A report last week, quoting controversial Italian doctor Severino Antinori as saying that he had impregnated a woman with a cloned a human embryo, thankfully appears to be false. But while most in the scientific community doubt that any scientists have yet cloned humans, the very prospect lends new urgency...
Until the medical dangers of human reproductive cloning are resolved, the procedure—in which a fertilized egg has its original DNA replaced with cloned DNA and is implanted in a woman’s womb with the intent
for a successful birth—should be banned on safety grounds. The state of current research makes the procedure likely to produce a deformed or otherwise diseased clone, if it even survives. Since researchers in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997, they have discovered severe arthritis in her...
Even more important, the ethical implications of such a procedure have hardly been explored. Issues of commodification and individuality, issues that touch every person in the most fundamental way, have yet to be engaged by the public to any considerable extent. There is no social consensus on human reproductive cloning...
If Kabala and the IOP want to sponsor a debate on abortion that is beneficial to participants on both sides of the issue, they should not consider the widespread implications of banning abortion. They should bring in medical professionals who can speak to the issue of the intrusion of government...