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When South Korea’s National University announced the first-ever successful cloning of a dog, the news triggered arguments about science and society throughout Asia.
Many people are still unaware that women’s eggs are a crucial part of “therapeutic cloning.”
Years of studies, and the passionate pleas of patients worldwide, are finally opening the way to a technique – somatic cell nuclear transfer, also known as “therapeutic cloning” – that may bring about epochal changes for the health of us all.
The debate over therapeutic cloning is, of course, hardly limited to the US and Italy.
The UN General Assembly ended a two-year debate on the matter in March 2005 by approving a non-binding declaration that calls upon states to “prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.”
Last summer, in response to the UN decision, 78 Nobel laureates signed a petition discouraging the adoption of an international ban on human cloning, because “it would condemn hundreds of millions of individuals afflicted by debilitating diseases to a life deprived of hope.”
There is, of course, widespread consensus against cloning devoted to the reproduction of human beings, and most of the world has outlawed the technique.
The Nobelists’ point is that, as far as therapeutic cloning is concerned, rather than attempting global prohibition, it would be much wiser, and possibly more effective, to promote an international regulatory regime through ample legalization of stem cell research.
Similarly, the latest polls in Italy suggest that the overwhelming majority of those who intend to vote are in favor of therapeutic cloning.
It involved a complex synthetic security that was derived from existing mortgage-backed securities by cloning them into imaginary units that mimicked the originals.
That is not surprising: as we saw with animal cloning, politics tends to lag behind science.
Last January, a form of human cloning called “therapeutic cloning” – or more properly “cell nuclear replacement” – was legalized in Britain.
Today, instead of cloning people from spare parts – or spare cells, as is the case with reproductive cloning – scientists hope to grow those parts by cloning people.
While Britain has legalized therapeutic cloning, they are poised to ban reproductive cloning.
Reproductive cloning raises several moral issues – principally those of safety.
Therapeutic cloning would probably be safer than reproductive cloning because any reprogramming defects would not affect every cell in the body – just the cells used in therapy.
Thus far, only the UK has legalized therapeutic cloning.
In March, Denmark’s Council of Ethics endorsed therapeutic cloning.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
Therapeutic cloning is conceptually distinct from reproductive cloning.
The latter – creating a person by cloning – would be done for reasons extending from egomania, to confusion between replication and resurrection, to the understandable desire to have a biologically related child.
Will therapeutic cloning make it more likely that people come to accept reproductive cloning?
Therapeutic cloning is intended to heal the sick.
The cells created through cloning would be an extension of the patient: a means to treat him with cells generated by his own body.
Even though I do not believe in a slippery slope from therapeutic to reproductive cloning, a society’s laws should give voice to its values.
And biotechnology will pose huge challenges, as human cloning and genetic screening enable parents to “choose” embryos with desired characteristics.
But at that time, the document’s drafters were more concerned with cloning and genetic treatment than a disease outbreak.
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