Articles
- Article: "Christopher Reeve defends cloning"
- by Richard M. Doerflinger
- In the public debate on human cloning, March 2003 came in like a lion without some lyin'.
- Article: "Clone the French"
- by Wesley J. Smith
- This article discusses the 2004 French law that prevents therapeutic and reproductive cloning.
- Article: "Closing in on Cloning"
- A brief summary of how we have gotten into the dabate over cloning and the events leading up to it.
- Article: "'Far too risky,' says the Archbishop of Cantebury"
- by Georgette Forney
- Most Rev. George L. Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, says human cloning is "far too risky."
- Article: "Legislating Medicine: California's 2004 cloning proposition"
- by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Jennifer Lahl
- This article analyzes California's 2004 proposed bond, Proposition 71, that funds therapeutic and reproductive cloning with facts and examples that disprove the arguments in support of this bond.
- Article: "Media Downplay of Stem Cell Research"
- While some proponents point out that human life is sacred, the media and advocates of embryonic stem cell research use an old, but tried and true, tactic: deny.
- Article: "New Genetics Functions As Eugenics"
- A commentary on bioethics issues.
- Article: "Of Dancing Oaks and Embryos"
- by C. Wayne Mayhall
- This is a concise and convincing RESPONSE TO Dr. Barglow's question, commonly raised in cloning: "A human blastocyst sitting in a Petri dish has the potential to become a person, it seems to me, is not a yet a person. An acorn is of the oak species and has the potential to become an oak tree, but it is not yet one."
- Article: "Remaking Humanity"
- by John Schroedel
- Schroedel summarizes thoughtful Christian responses to the advances of biotechnology; he explores the implications on humanity and the urgency of the Church to rise up in this time.
- Article: "Science or Propaganda?"
- The National Academy of science condemns human cloning for reproductive services and instead says it is OK to use human clones for research.
- Article: "Spinning Cells: An Overview of Stem Cell Research"
- by Georgette Forney
- An informative article about cloning.
- Article: "Strange Clonefellows"
- A current and succinct article that is to the point and has an overview of where cloning currently stands.
- Article: "U.S. Seeks to Extend Ban on Cloning"
- The United States today proposed a “global and comprehensive ban” on human cloning and all experimentation involving human embryos. The announcement marked an expansion in the Bush administration’s campaign to restrict the uses of human embryos for scientific and medical purposed.
- N.Y. to Pay for Eggs for Stem Cell Research
- by By Rob Stein, Washington Post Staff Writer
- New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research.
Facts
- Fact: Excerpt from "Second Opinion" Cloning isn't everyting you thought it was.
- Facts: Cloning from AFL's Briefing Booklet Cloning is a way of producing a genetic twin of an organism without sexual reproduction. Cloning a human begins by artificially producing a human embryo.
