American Bioethics Advisory Commission

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Ban Human Cloning:  Report of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission

Contents

I. The Arguments for Human Life and Dignity

  1. Summary

  2. "The Dignity of Human Procreation"

  3. Testimony of Gilbert Meilaender: "Begotten, Not Made"

  4. Testimony of Leon Kass: "For an International Ban"

II. The arguments for human cloning, and responses

  1. Review of arguments presented to the NBAC

  2. Dignity: A Fuzzy Concept?

III. Problems with the Clone-and-Kill Option

IV. Current (6/97) Legislation in Other Nations

V. Model legislation

VI. Appendix: "The Moment God Became Man"