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The creation of a cloned sheep from mammary tissue has raisedmajor social concern, and much talk about major ethical issuesoccasioned by this technology. It is necessary to separategenuine from spurious ethical issues here, a task made failureto initiate ethical discussion and explanation of new technologyas well as by fear reactions in society. As in geneticengineering of animals, issues about cloning fall into threecategories – suggestions that the technology is inherently wrong,risk emerging from the technology and harm to the creatureengendered. The issues regarding the cloning of humans can beanalyzed using the same categories.
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Rollin, B. Send in the Clones ... Don't Bother, They're Here. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10, 25–40 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007743421313
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007743421313