Illegal beings : human clones and 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. Anti-cloning laws reinforce these stereotypes and stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. This injures not on...
| Main Author: | Macintosh, Kerry Lynn. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005
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Table of 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.