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The prospect of human cloning: improving nature or dooming the species?

Judith Daar

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INTRODUCTION 512 I. GAGING THE RESPONSE TO HUMAN CLONING 517 A. Initial Reactions and Actions 517 B. Recent Attitudes Toward Human Cloning 519 II. CAN A BAN ON HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING BE JUSTIFIED? ...524 A. Is a Ban on Human Cloning Moral? 525 1. Banning Human Cloning: A View From Utilitarianism ...526 a. Possible Benefits of Reproductive Cloning 527 b. Possible Harms of Reproductive Cloning 530 c. Criticism of Utilitarianism as a Moral Theory 535 2. Banning Human Cloning: A View From Deontology.......537 B. Is a Ban on Human Cloning Legal? 541 1. Does a Cloning Ban Violate Protected Procreational Liberty? 543 2. Is a Total Ban on Human Cloning Unconstitutionally Vague? 551 C. Is a Ban on Human Cloning Practical? 558 1. Successes and Failures in Animal Cloning 559 2. Inroads in Human Cloning 564 3. The Effects of Banning Conduct 568 III. CONCLUSION 572

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Key concepts: Human cloning, Cloning (programming), Utilitarianism, Political science, Law, Biology, Environmental ethics, Genetics