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Human Cloning: Reproductive Cloning
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“It is a recipe (for human cloning) in the sense that ’catch a turtle’ is the recipe for turtle soup,” said Kennedy at a news conference. “There is much difficulty that would remain for anybody who tried to use this technology as a first step toward reproductive cloning.”
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There have been consistent calls in Canada to ban human reproductive cloning since the 1993 Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. Polls have indicated that an overwhelming majority of Canadians oppose human reproductive cloning. 2
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Human reproductive cloning ... would produce benefits. Antinori and Zavos hope to create a fertility treatment that allows parents who are both infertile to have children with at least some of their DNA in their offspring.
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In theory reproductive cloning was banned by the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001. Only therapeutic cloning is lawful and only provided the cloned embryos are destroyed after 14 days – the current time limit for research on embryos.
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The Vatican opposes cloning humans, in part, because it is a means of reproduction that, like in vitro fertilization, does not derive directly from sexual intercourse between a married man and woman. In fact, more than any other reproductive technology, cloning threatens to sever the link between sex, marriage and reproduction, and to render the male role in reproduction obsolete.
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National efforts to outlaw reproductive cloning of humans are easily skirted if researchers can simply move to other jurisdictions. Disgraced South Korean medical researcher Woo Sook Hwang, whose human clone claims were unsubstantiated, reportedly continues his work in Thailand.
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