Although Kato
called human reproductive cloning directly from iPS cell lines «very hypothetical,» he pointed out progress for that possibility when he noted that three teams had produced mouse clones from iPS cells.
Not exact matches
BAC, however,
calls for an outright ban on
human reproductive cloning and affirms that scientists caught doing so would face the full force of the law, although final details of penalties for offenders have not been spelled out.
Paying for
human eggs, many bioethicists argue, commodifies a
human resource; Sandel, for example, a proponent of both research
cloning and embryonic stem cell research, opposes the idea of financial inducement for what he
calls «
human reproductive capacity.»
«Whether used to bring
cloned human embryos to live birth (so -
called «
reproductive»
cloning), or to exploit them as sources of «spare parts» for other
humans (so -
called «therapeutic»
cloning),
human cloning diminishes us all,» McQuade added.