Cloning

Cloning Bibliography

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with all sides of the issue.

 

Cloning Annotated Bibliography

Post Date: 03/01/2009

The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's positions or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with all sides of the issue.

 Harris, John. Clones, Genes, and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetic Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

 

 

Show Me State Duped by Deceptive Amendment 2

Post Date: 11/08/2006
Author: 
CBHD Research Staff


Chicago, Illinois – Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD) C. Ben Mitchell, PhD, says of the passage of Missouri’s Amendment 2: “This is no triumph for science, it is a victory for dishonesty and confusion—a new Tower of Babel—where words have no meaning.”


Length: 4:33
 

Open Letter from Experts in Science, Medicine, Law, and Ethics on the Cloning Provisions of Missouri's Amendment 2

Post Date: 11/03/2006
Author: 
Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics

 

A key question regarding Missouri's proposed Amendment 2 is: Would this constitutional amendment prohibit or promote "human cloning"? As individuals who have studied this issue in depth, we hold that it clearly authorizes and promotes human cloning.


Length: 8:40
 

Veritas? Harvard's Stem Cell Initiative

Post Date: 06/09/2006
Author: 
Keith Plummer, PhD

Last night I read a press release announcing Harvard University's launch of a privately funded program that will create cloned embryos for the purpose of embryonic stem cell research. I wondered how the institution would handle the ethical controversy surrounding the procedure so I read an article in the Harvard Gazette.1 Doing so left me thinking how ironic it is that the school's seal bears the Latin word for "truth."


Length: 8:19
 

The Real Lesson of the Korean Cloning Scandal

Post Date: 03/10/2006
Author: 
Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics

While details of the Korean cloning scandal involving disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk continue to unfold, there is no doubt regarding the central fraud he perpetrated—surely to be ranked among the great scandals in the annals of scientific research.


Length: 11:31