Illegal beings : human clones and the law / Kerry Lynn Macintosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macintosh, Kerry Lynn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human cloning--Law and legislation--United States.

Human reproductive technology--Law and legislation--United States.

Human cloning--Research--Law and legislation.

Human cloning--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology--Law and legislation.

Human cloning--Law and legislation.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime. In America some states have already outlawed cloning and Congress is working to enact a national ban. Meanwhile, scientific research continues, both in America and abroad and soon reproductive cloning may become possible. If that happens, cloning cannot be stopped. Infertile couples and others will choose to have babies through cloning, even if they have to break the law. This book explains that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated. The objections reflect and inspire unjustified stereotypes about human clones and anti-cloning laws reinforce these stereotypes and stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. This injures not only human clones, but also the egalitarianism upon which our society is based. Applying the same reasoning used to invalidate racial segregation, this book argues that anti-cloning laws violate the equal protection guarantee and are unconstitutional.

Contents:

Does human reproductive cloning offend God and nature?

Should children be begotten and not made?

Do human clones lack individuality?

Could human clones destroy humanity?

Does human reproductive cloning harm participants and produce children with birth defects?

What anticloning laws say and do

Five objections have inspired anticloning laws

Anticloning laws reflect a policy of existential segregation

Costs of anticloning laws outweigh their benefits

Anticloning laws classify human clones and are subject to strict scrutiny

Anticloning laws inflict judicially cognizable injuries that confer standing

Anticloning laws violate the equal protection guarantee.

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ISBN:

9780511511479

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.