Human Cloning and Human Dignity
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics Leon R. Kass
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586481762
Edition: Paperback; 2002-10
Summary:
A council of leading scientists and philosophers offers wise and
provocative insights into the ethical implications of one of the most
momentous developments of all-cloning. Few avenues of scientific
inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human
beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in
conjunction with his decision to permit limited federal funding for
stem-cell research, President George W. Bush created the President's
Council on Bioethics to address the ethical ramifications of
biomedical innovation.. Over the past year the Council, whose members
comprise an all-star team of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists,
lawyers, humanists, and theologians, has discussed and debated the
pros and cons of cloning, whether in the service of producing
children or as an aid to scientific research. The questions the
Council members confronted do not have easy answers, and they did not
seek to hide their differences behind an artificial consensus.
Rather, the Council decided to allow each side to make its own best
case, so that the American people can think about and debate these
questions, which go to the heart of what it means to be a human
being. Just as the dawn of the atomic age created ethical dilemmas
for the United States, cloning presents us with similar quandaries
that we are sure to wrestle with for decades to come.
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