After 276 unsuccessful attempts, a team of British scientists were able to clone Dolly, the world's first genetically cloned animal. In the future, there may be many positive uses for cloning, but getting there will be very costly not only fiscally, but also in loss of life. Several other animals, s...
Many urged President Bush to agree with former President Clinton's policy on stem cell research and that was; that the Congressional ban on funding embryo research would not be broken if the support was provided for only stem cell research and not for human cloning and no embryos would be destroyed to acquire these stem cells. ... Hillary Rodman-Clinton D-N.Y. questioned if the mix between human and animal cells would lead to contamination to the human cells, and if they could get more stem cells that it would be safer and a better way to conduct research that does not involve animals. ...
Just a day after hearing this news the president, Bill Clinton, formally requested that the National Bioethics Advisory Commission "Undertake a thorough review of the legal and ethical issues associated with the use of this technology ," and had announced his intention to start an advisory group on bioethics eighteen months before. "We know there is virtually unanimous consensus in the scientific and medical communities that attempting to use cloning techniques to actually clone a human being is untested, unsafe and morally unacceptable," said Clinton. ... President Clinton urged Congress to ...
As of now, the final conclusion to human cloning is exposed in the report by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) that was presented to President Bill Clinton in 1997. ... Consequently, President Clinton accepted the proposal. ...
HUMAN CLONING Human nature has taught us that scientific breakthroughs have resulted in evil and dangerous exploitation. These exploitations can be seen in reality in military science. These breakthroughs have been manipulated into weapons of death and destruction against humanity and the use of them raises a question of morality. There are many examples in the fields of chemistry, physics, and industry in which the results of science are intended for the good of mankind, but ultimately become corrupted. The development of the machine gun was intended as the "weapon to end all wars (Impli...
You have been told that you are unique. The belief that there is no one else like you in the whole world made you feel special and proud. This belief may not be true in the future. The world was stunned by the news in late February 1997 that a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut and his researc...
Even though scientists said this method of cloning couldn't be applied to humans yet, Bill Clinton asked The National Bioethics Advisory Commission to study the ethical and legal implications of human cloning (Biomedical: Roleff, ed. 16). ...
How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? Does it go against your religious beliefs? These are just a few of the questions society is asking of itself these days. As cloning transforms from a fantasy to a reality, many ethical questions are brought into the picture. Cloning which...
For nearly a century, cloning has been the subject of popular fiction even though the technology was lacking in reality. Recently, with the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, many suspect that clones of humans or human parts will soon be realized- if not already. Therefore, it has become increasingly necessary to consider the possible harms to humanity this new science may cause. Additionally, intense discussion regarding the social and moral ramifications of this controversial, multi-faceted subject is needed. To maintain an impartial and more logical discussion, it's helpful to ...
In the United States, there are bills pending in both houses of Congress to ban cloning, and a new National Bio-ethics Advisory Commission is currently examining cloning's moral and legal implications. ... President Clinton took independent action pending the passage of legislation to ban any efforts to clone humans with federally funded research, and also asked privately funded scientists to abide by a voluntary moratorium for at least 90 days (Kenen). ...
