Human Cloning: Stereotypes, Public Policy, and the Law

In David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Springer Verlag. pp. 637-647 (2018)
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Abstract

Human cloning will not generate human copies or prematurely aged babies. Rather, it will help infertile, gay, and lesbian couples have ordinary babies who are genetically related to them. In the face of the drive to reproduce, laws that ban human cloning will be ineffective. Parents will simply travel to states or nations with more tolerant laws and come home pregnant or with babies. If they are prosecuted and imprisoned for the crime of cloning, their children will suffer. Moreover, cloning bans will stigmatize cloned children as decrepit copies who are unworthy to exist. Education is a preferable solution. Once the public realizes that children born through cloning are as unique and human as everyone else, pressure to ban human cloning should subside.

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