Hailed as revolutionary, the prospect of human cloning is actually the next logical step in a series of developments in reproductive technology that began with the first test-tube baby in 1978. This book addresses the debates over cloning in the context of new reproductive technology and human embryo research. It examines the status of preimplantation embryos, the ethical issues related to cloning and embryo research, and the formulation of public policy.

• Introduction


• 1: Bonnie Steinbock: Respect for Human Embryos


• 2: Courtney Campbell: Source or Resource


• 3: Maura A. Ryan: Creating Embryos for Research: On Weighing Symbolic Costs


• 4: James Kennan: Casuistry, Virtue, and the Slippery Slope: Major Problems with Producing Human Embryonic Life for Research Purposes


• 5: R. Alta Charo: Every Cell is Sacred: Logical Consequences of the Arguement from the Potential in the Age of Cloning


• 6: Dan W. Brock: Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con


• 7: Ronald M. Green: Much Ado About Mutton: An Ethical Review of the Cloning Controversy


• 8: Laurie Zoloth: Born Again: Faith and Yearning in the Cloning Controversy


• 9: Carol A. Tauer: Responsibility and Regulation: Reproductive Technologies, Cloning, and Embryo Research


• 10: Jonathan D. Moreno and Alex John London: Consensus, Ethics, and Politics in Cloning and Embryo Research


• 11: Brian Stiltner: Morality, Religion, and Public Bioethics: Shifting the Paradigm for the Public Discussion of Embryo Research and Human Cloning


• 12: Heidi Forster and Emily Remsey: The Law Meets Reproductive Technology: The Prospect of Human Cloning


• Appendix 1: Executive Summary, Human Embryo Research Panel Report


• Appendix 2: Executive Summary, National Bioethics Advisory Commission Report, Cloning Human beings


• Appendix 2a: Excerpts, Chapter 2, National Bioethics Advisory Commission Report, Cloning Human Beings