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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
The Cloning Of Human Beings: Ethical And Legal Issues
Elton FOGAÇA DA COSTA, MDa Nilza Maria DINIZ, MD,a José Eduardo SIQUEIRA, MDb
aNúcleo de Bioética de Londrina, Paraná-BrasilaDepartamento de Biologia Geral - CCB, bDepartamento de Clínica Médica - CCS, Universidade Estadual de LON-DRINA
Cloning is a reproductive method that stil raises many important ethical and legal questions. In the area of ethics, it has created serious dilemmas such as the morality behind the use human embryos for scientific purposes, the disposal of unused embryos, the lack of safe scientific measures to support the techniques used, the utility of cloning.
In the area of law, other relevant themas are identified such as the right to life, human dignity, scientific research freedom, as well as the legal nature of the human embryo, the right to reproduction, privacy, identity, hereditary succession.
Therefore, to discuss the issue under the lihgt of these ethical and legal concepts is extreme importance. The objective of this work is to give readers some succinct information about cloning, and to provide some ethical and legal reflections on its use.Keywords: Cloning, medical ethics, lawTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2006, 14:72-76
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