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The naked clone : how cloning bans threaten our personal rights / John Charles Kunich.
Author
Kunich, John C., 1953-
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English
Published/Created
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
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xii, 172 pages ; 25 cm
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KF3831 .K86 2003
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Human cloning
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Law and legislation
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United States
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Civil rights
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"Banning therapeutic and reproductive cloning jeopardizes more than cloning itself. The constitutional principles intertwined with cloning embrace such vital liberties as personal autonomy, privacy, reproduction, and freedom of expression. Properly understood, cloning is essentially the same as other forms of assisted reproduction. Procrustean bans on cloning implicate and indirectly threaten numerous key personal interests, including abortion, in vitro fertilization, same-sex adoption, and surrogacy. A government allowed to preemptively isolate and censor medico-scientific research into cloning may be emboldened to shut down other forms of disfavored inquiry and expression as well. Much of the animosity toward cloning is based on unfounded fear, science-fiction fantasy, moralistic bias, and slippery slope predictions, most of which is scientifically untenable or already illegal.
Yet when people are cloned, they will in fact be less similar than identical twins; genetics aren't everything. Differing environments produce differing people, and human clones - distinct individuals - will be entitled to the same human rights and legal protections that have protected individuals for centuries. Kunich establishes the pressing need to evaluate cloning in a rational scientific and legal manner, before the extreme opposition sprouting from fear and misunderstanding, which has already led to several state laws, results in an unconstitutional federal ban."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cloning in science and science fiction
Cloning laws in the United States
International law and cloning around the world
Galileo in modern chains and the banning of scientific research
The naked clone and bans on reproductive cloning
The proper role of law in cloning
List of cases
Glossary.
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ISBN
0275979644 ((alk. paper))
9780275979645 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2003042931
OCLC
51763853
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