Attempts
at human reproductive cloning are ethically unacceptable to the vast majority of the scientific community and the general public.
Not exact matches
My basis for flatly opposing
reproductive and research
cloning is that it offers too little
human benefit
at the cost of too much likely harm, not that it is an offense against
human dignity.
Ian Wilmut is now the professor of
reproductive biology
at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine
at Edinburgh University, and in February 2005 he was granted a licence by the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make human cl
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make
human cl
human clones.
ACT announced last November that they had
cloned early - stage
human embryos in a step toward therapeutic
cloning (which seeks to treat diseases by using genetic material from a patient's own cells) but the company believes that
reproductive cloning is too risky and unwarranted
at this time.