Ian Wilmut announced the birth of Dolly, a sheep cloned from her mother's tissue using the nuclear transfer method. Dolly's birth was significant, but the timing the announcement of her birth even more so, for Dolly was born seven months before the announcement was made to the public. ... The cloning of mammals stopped being science fiction with the birth of Dolly, and the cloning of humans is the next logical step. ... Clonaid hopes to announce the birth of a cloned human late in 2001, or early 2002, a clone of a 10-month-old child that died tragically (ABC News). ... Wilmut i...

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Since her birth, she has caused a sensation around the world, sparking controversial ideas of human cloning (Nuland 128). ... Religion has also played an important role in the contentious issues of this genetic technology, raising speculation of whether or not research teams are out to replace God in birthing process. ... Even the "data on animal cloning demonstrates exceptionally high rates of fetal loss, abortion [and] neonatal deaths; [experiencing] devastating birth defects [as well], states Schatten (Friend), vice chairman of obstetrics, therefore implicating much worse results for clonin...

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Identify a topic related to religion and sex (examples include but are not limited to: celibacy, virginity, sex as sinful, Adam and Eve, procreation, birth control, abortion, etc.). ... Identify a topic related to international human sexuality issues (examples include but are not limited to: female genital mutilation, prostitution, gender roles and expectations, female vs. male offspring, virginity, fertility, birth control, etc.). ...

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If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ...

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After a pregnancy period, the pregnant ewe gave birth to a lamb named Dolly that is genetically identical to the original donor (Science). ... Since the announcement of the birth of "Dolly" the potential benefits to be derived from cloning procedures in agriculture and laboratory animal species are being recognized. ... Wilmut's experiment involved the births of many defective animals before he successfully cloned the sheep (Implications). ...

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A population according to the funk and Wangnall Dictionary is a grouping of individuals subject to the processes of birth, death, and migration.. ... With contraceptives, such as condoms, birth control pills and abortions we see means of limiting reproduction. ...

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Sartre on Freedom In this paper I will attempt to describe the existential phenomenology of Jean-Paul Sartre and portray it into real life while analyzing its applications. I will first explain what existentialism is according to Sartre. The term itself depends on concrete individual existence, ...

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So, aborting a child that would be born with birth defects would be acceptable, aborting a child in order to limit population growth would be acceptable; aborting a child that someone doesn't want and would only become a burden to tax payers would be acceptable. ...

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Man, powered by his imagination and inquisitive character, has wondered he mechanisms of Nature since time infinite. This quest for the truth, the ways in which his surrounding works, has led to many a scientific discoveries and innovations. Since the art of making fire and creating handcrafted tool...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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