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A 4 page paper discussing the ethics of human cloning. The paper treats therapeutic and reproductive cloning separately, and illustrates the applicability of the philosophies of Kant, Mill and Rawls. There is little ethical support for reproductive cloning, but therapeutic cloning is less clear. One author states that we should not avoid a technology simply because we do not yet have it completely identified. Those awaiting transplant organ availability likely would agree. It is left to the rest of us to decide what is or is not acceptable in our society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KSethClone.rtf
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"Everything is permissible for me - but not everything is beneficial" (I Corinthians 6:12 NIV). The issue of cloning can be considered in this manner as well. Therapeutic
cloning appears to be more ethically acceptable than is reproductive cloning, and to date only therapeutic cloning has been demonstrated to be possible. Recent reports of the production of
a human clone have not been substantiated (Get real, 2003), and the company claiming to have accomplished the generation of complete individuals from only a few human cells has failed
to produce any proof for its claims. To date, the United States has limited stem cell research to those strains already existing for
research purposes. The European Union (EU) takes the official position of supporting therapeutic cloning only, though it allows individual member states to decide for themselves how much of the
technology they will accept and allow. Philosophical Base The philosophies of Kant, Mill and Rawls are particularly applicable to the issue of human
cloning. Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act from the "categorical imperative." That is to say that they should decide on what action to take as though
they could, through their will, cause their actions to become universal law. Kant held that only those things that have been experienced absolutely
can be known. Conversely, those "things lying beyond experience, noumena, are unknowable, even though in some cases we assume a priori knowledge of them" (Immanuel Kant). In ethics
of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can affect the moral and ethical decisions of individuals. According to Kant, man may incorporate personal and sometimes selfish considerations
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