What justifies the United States ban on federal funding for nonreproductive cloning?
@article{Cunningham2013WhatJT, title={What justifies the United States ban on federal funding for nonreproductive cloning?}, author={Thomas V Cunningham}, journal={Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy}, year={2013}, volume={16}, pages={825-841} }
This paper explores how current United States policies for funding nonreproductive cloning are justified and argues against that justification. I show that a common conceptual framework underlies the national prohibition on the use of public funds for cloning research, which I call the simple argument. This argument rests on two premises: that research harming human embryos is unethical and that embryos produced via fertilization are identical to those produced via cloning. In response to the… CONTINUE READING
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