CAS PH 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Wisdom Of Repugnance, Human Cloning
7 Aug 2018
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Cloning is not a photocopy: cloning discussion outline. Leon kass"s natural law approach to cloning (unnatural, repugnant) Technological context: cloning will be seen as an extension of existing techniques for assisting reproduction and determining the genetic makeup of children. Liberal context: sets cloning in the contexts of rights, freedoms and empowerment; new option for exercising individual rights to reproduce or to have the kind of child one wants. Meliorist context: improving human beings, ensuring healthy individuals by avoiding risks of genetic disease in the lottery of sex; producing optimal babies . Rights tend to trump utility (in public policy) Procreative liberty (contraception, abortion, children, cloning?: moral arguments in favor of human cloning, rights: cloning, individual benefits of human cloning. Broad enough to create moral presumption in favor of human. 445 (cid:403) motives and intentions matter, and these are complex for all, even those who are sexually reproducing.
