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Surplus Embryos, Nonreproductive Cloning, and the Intend/Foresee Distinction
Author(s) -
Fitzpatrick William
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528435
Subject(s) - cloning (programming) , embryo , infertility , personhood , biology , aesthetics , law , political science , genetics , philosophy , computer science , pregnancy , programming language
There is, as some public figures have asserted, a real moral difference between creating embryos expressly for medical research and conducting research on embryos that are left over from infertility treatments. To create an embryo intending all along to destroy it is worse. But in the end, it isn't so much worse that we should ban all nonreproductive cloning.