Be prepared to protect rights of clones: UN study
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New York, Nov 10 - Global leaders need to reach a compromise that outlaws reproductive cloning or be prepared to protect the rights of human clones from potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination.A report by the United Nations University's Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) says a ban on human cloning, coupled with freedom for nations to permit controlled therapeutic research, is the global community's best option.The report, titled 'Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance' has been authored by UNU-IAS director A.H. Zakri.Virtually every nation opposes human cloning and more than 50 have legislated bans on such efforts. However, negotiation of an international accord floundered at the UN in 2005 due to disagreement over research or therapeutic cloning.'Human reproductive cloning could profoundly impact humanity,' said UN Under-Secretary-General Konrad Osterwalder. 'This report offers a plain language analysis of the opportunities, challenges and options before us - a firm and thoughtful base from which the international community can revisit the issue before science overtakes policy.'Without a global ban, the International Court of Justice could judge human reproductive cloning in certain countries perfectly legal, warned Brendan Tobin, Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy, Darryl Macer and Mihaela Serbulea, co-authors of the report.Tobin of the National University of Ireland said: 'Failure to outlaw reproductive cloning means it is just a matter of time until cloned individuals share the planet.'If failure to compromise continues, the world community must accept responsibility and ensure that any cloned individual receives full human rights protection.'It will also need to embark on an extensive awareness building and sensitivity program to ensure that the wider society treats clones with respect and ensure they are protected against prejudice, abuse or discrimination.'There is almost universal international consensus on the desirability of banning reproductive cloning based in part on religious and moral grounds, but mostly on concerns about underdeveloped technologies producing clones with serious deformities or degenerative diseases, Tobin added.As technologies advance and possibilities of success increase, the current consensus is likely to erode and with it the possibility of securing a ban on reproductive cloning.` (c) Indo-Asian News Service
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individual rights
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john ,
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:56:10 GMT
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any created clones should be held accountable in and with the same respect as anyone created fully by natural means including any level of the cloning process such as artificial insemination and test tube conception
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Protecting the Rights of Human Clones
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Theodora Weaver ,
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:29:24 GMT
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Human clones should be protected under the "Hate Crime Bill." Look, since there are "gay rights" and all other rights, then OUR clones should be protected as well.
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Clones aren't human?
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Dave Hollings ,
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:57:41 GMT
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Chadrick Long wrote: "[H]ow can the UN expect us to treat clones like they are equal to us when they are not, they have no soul, they did not have to go through growing up and dealing with everything that all of us "regular" humans have had to go through..."
-Mr. Long, I fail to see how a clone would be different from a "regular" human. You yourself ask how we would be able to distinguish a clone from a human conceived by sexual intercourse.
A cloned blastocyst must be successfully implanted in an animal recipient and allowed time to develop just like a human embryo created from the fusion of a sperm and egg cell. These clones would not be created at a later stage of development (say 20 years old). A naturally-conceived embryo and a cloned embryo would develop in the same way. They both would grow up having the same experiences, though an early clone may be surrounded by much media and scientific hype for awhile.
Other than that, there's no difference. As for this "no soul" business, I would like to know when and how you were granted such insight into the creation of life.
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Cloning
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Chadrick Long ,
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:11:51 GMT
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I think that if we start to "produce" clones and we begin to substitue the natural rate of human reproduction, then we are digging a hole that we cannot get out of. How will we be able to distinguish a clone from a regular human? and how can the UN expect us to treat clones like they are equal to us when they are not, they have no soul, they did not have to go through growing up and dealing with everything that all of us "regular" humans have had to go through, they are just glorified science experiments...i think this is all basically a bunch of mularky...and it makes me sick to think that the world is coming to this....the end is near folks....this is what the world is coming to...
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