Why we should ban the cloning of human beings From: Texas Review of Law & Politics | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright University of Texas, Austin, School of Law Publications, Inc. Fall 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"To clone or not to clone a human being" is no longer a fanciful question. Success in cloning first sheep, then cows, and most recently, great success in cloning mice makes it perfectly clear that a fateful decision is now at hand: should we welcome or even tolerate the cloning of human beings?

We dare not be complacent about what is at issue, for the stakes are very high indeed. Human cloning, though partly continuous with previous reproductive technologies, is also something radically new, both in itself and in its easily foreseeable consequences. I exaggerate, but in the direction of ...

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