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Human Cloning: Researchers
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Hogan and other researchers contend that ACT's work offers little scientific information about the feasibility of human cloning, whether intended to produce a person or stem cells. The egg would have to develop into a ball of about 100 cells before researchers could harvest stem cells or implant the embryo in a woman's uterus.
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REALITY: There is growing evidence that the biotech industry is laying the groundwork for growing cloned human embryos into much later stages of development, in order to harvest their parts. Indeed, researchers have already grown cow clones to four months, and cloned mice to the newborn stage, before harvesting desired tissues – and proclaimed these studies as breakthroughs for “therapeutic cloning.” In should be obvious that biotech firms are not spending money on such research in order to develop transplant therapies for the benefit of cows or mice.
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While the autonomy justification itself is flawed, there is more to say about it as a basis for defending human cloning. For even if it were an adequate type of ethical justification--which it is not--it is far from clear that it would actually justify the practice. An honest, complete autonomy-based evaluation of human cloning would have to consider the autonomy of all persons involved, including the people produced through cloning, and not just the autonomy of researchers and people desiring to have clones. Of the many considerations that would need to be taken into account if the autonomy of the clones were taken seriously, space will only permit the examination of two here.
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As a consequence of these and other factors, biotechnology industrialists and university researchers who currently lack the resources to pursue human cloning are now looking for public funding to finance their work. To this end, pro-cloning types have launched a political campaign aimed at gaining access to public coffers.
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"This study demonstrates, for the first time, that SCNT can be utilized to generate cloned human blastocysts using differentiated adult donor nuclei remodeled and reprogrammed by human oocytes," the researchers write. They believe that some key technical factors contributed to their successful results, including the use of freshly donated oocytes from successful egg donors.
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Has anyone been successful in creating human clones? One group, who received some media attention, planned to clone a human by 2003. This group was led by Panayiotis Zavos, a former University of Kentucky Professor, and Severino Antinori, an Italian researcher.
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