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Is there a right to genetic identity?
Author(s) -
Íñigo de Miguel Beriaín
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
arbor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1988-303X
pISSN - 0210-1963
DOI - 10.3989/arbor.2008.i730.177
Subject(s) - identity (music) , genealogy , history , art , aesthetics
Is there a right to have a genetic identity? This question has usually been answered in an affirmative way. This paper tries to demonstrate that this conclusion is only right when we talk about adult people. However, in the case of clones, it is not possible to think about a rignt of this kind, but a rignt to not live. This means that Laws must include the recognition of that right, if they do not want their banning of human cloning to became meaningless. ¿Existe un derecho a poseer una identidad genética propia? La respuesta a esta pregunta ha sido, tradicionalmente, afirmativa. El presente texto trata de demostrar que esta conclusión sólo es correcta cuando hablamos de seres humanos adultos. Sin embargo, en el caso de los clones, no es posible hablar de este tipo de derecho, sino de un derecho a no vivir. Esto significa que las leyes deben incluir el reconocimiento de ese derecho, si no quieren que sus prohibiciones a la clonación pierdan todo su sentido

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