4 Cloning Flashcards
What did the Church of Scotland say about therapeutic cloning?
That the embryo has a special status created by God but they recognise the potential benefits of embryo research under limited circumstances.
What does the Department of Health say about therapeutic cloning?
“There could be considerable potential for the use of it” including repairing managed organs, diabetes and other degenerative diseases.
What does Pence say about full human cloning?
That it is morally acceptable - it doesn’t harm any people. Some embryos will be lost but 40% of embryos don’t implant in sexual reproduction.
What does Pence think about people having double standards?
People are morally concerned by the destruction of frozen embryos but not when they are lost due to not implanting.
What does Gould think about cloning?
That there are no new ethical questions raised - identical twins share more properties than Dolly the sheep and her mother. “They grow up as distinctive and undoubted individuals yet stand as far better clones than Dolly and her mother”
What does Robertson think about cloning?
“If a couple are willing to take the risk that their embryo won’t form, implant, have a miscarriage, be born with a defect yet still rear it, it’s hard to see why it’s any worse than other practices leading to physically damaged offspring”
What view do some Christians have about therapeutic cloning?
They adopt a middle view and reject human cloning but allow therapeutic cloning due to the good consequences it produces.
What does Cardinal Winning believe about cloning?
That although the ‘end is good’ the ‘means are immoral’ and they result in the death of tiny cloned human beings.
What does Catholic Doctor Jadmulowicz think about cloning?
That using human embryos for scientific research that hasn’t yet taken place using animals ends the special status the embryo deserves. He also believes TC could become possible from adult cells which would save embryos used in research which would lead to human cloning.
Why does Kass oppose cloning?
- He thinks it shows that human nature no longer commands respect.
- it’ll harm the created child with confusion of identity because they’re ‘the work not of God or nature but of man’.
- the child will have an identity crisis because they’re identical in appearance to another human.
- it turns reproduction into manufacturing, another man-made thing, ‘babies need have no necessary connection to sex’.
- it’s a form so despotism of the cloned over the clone, and violates the meaning of a parent-child relationship
Why does Bruce oppose therapeutic cloning?
He is concerned of ‘ethical gradualism’ allowing extreme ethical processes by a series of small steps, TC being the first.
