Human Rights and the New Genetics
George Annas - Professor,
Boston University
[The clone] is robbed of the
freedom which can only thrive under the protection of ignorance
an
inexplicable crime that must not be committed even once.
Hans Jonas, 1974
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Just to dumbfound Annas I have decided
to clone myself first. My wife will carry the child. Shes postmenopausal but
thats no problem.
Richard Seed, 9/5/98
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Replication of a human by cloning would
radically alter the definition of a human being by producing the worlds first
human with a single genetic parent
Annas, 3/97
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A child by cloning has a full set of
chromosomes like anyone else
[the] donor is not the childs parent in any
biological sense, but simply an earlier offspring of the original parents.
Lewontin, 10/97
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Crimes against Humanity (Inhumanity)
e.g.
murder, torture, slavery, genocide
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International Human Rights Law
- Medical Ethics
- Universal & Unenforceable
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