1. The Value of Human Life
Polarity reached such epic proportions that Stanford University halted plans on an $18 millon lab, costing the school an estimated $2 million (Cowley 51). ... Horrific details of experiments " outlining how cats would stand "trembling and salivating- or die "during or soon after periods of continuous convulsive activity- " conducted by Michiko Okamoto of Cornell University, prompted Steve Siegel of TSu to call the tests "the worst of the worst- (Cowley 50). ... For instance, testing done on baboons by a Duke University team of doctors helped make significant strides toward pig-to-...
John Gurdon of Cambridge University followed this in 1962 with a cloned toad, which lived to adulthood and was able to reproduce. ... Among the Americans present were the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities and Alexander Graham Bell. ...
For the first time the cloning of a whole human being seems really possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses. Also, it is important to understand some of the theory underlying the desire to build a better human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning...
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 incre...