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Monogamous marriages and deadbeat dads: bad arguments about cloning

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  1. The title is from Kass’ paper The Wisdeom of Repugnance, The New Republic 02 June 1997.

  2. Ibid p. 17

  3. Ibid p. 18

  4. Ibid

  5. Ibid p. 17f.

  6. Ibid p. 20

  7. This title is from a section heading in Pence’s Who’s afraid of human cloning?, p. 110

  8. Ibid

  9. Note that in a secondary point Pence also argues that it provides some people with a feeling of participating in a form of immortality, thus lessening feelings of despair in the face of death. Ibid.

  10. Ibid p. 108

  11. Ibid p. 112

  12. Ibid

  13. Ibid p. 111

  14. Actually, the phrase “maternal appropriation” is quoted by Pence from an article by geneticist Axel Kahn. Interestingly the piece is anti-cloning. See Nature 1997; 386: 119.

  15. Ibid p. 112.

  16. Ibid

  17. Ibid p. 109

  18. Ibid p. 111

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Little, K. Monogamous marriages and deadbeat dads: bad arguments about cloning. Monash Bioethics Review 18, 54–58 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03351217

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