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Human Cloning: Analysis and Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

KEVIN T. FITZGERALD
KEVIN T. FITZGERALD
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Medical Humanities at the Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois.
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Abstract

The journal Nature Genetics recently reported a statement made by Dr. Brigitte Boisselier declaring the rights of parents to clone themselves. Dr. Boisselier is the scientific director of Clonaid—a Bahamas based company that plans to offer human cloning for $200,000. Does this offer have the same scientific credibility as Captain Kirk requesting “Beam me up, Scotty!”? How do we begin to respond to this offer and Dr. Boisselier's claim for its ethical justification?

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PERSPECTIVE
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 218 - 222
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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