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Illegal beings : human clones and the law  Cover Image Book Book

Illegal beings : human clones and the law / Kerry Lynn Macintosh.

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  • ISBN: 0521853281 (hardback)
  • ISBN: 9780521853286 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-265) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1. Five common objections to human reproductive cloning reflect, reinforce, and inspire stereotypes about human clones -- 1. Does human reproductive cloning offend God and nature? -- 2. Should children be begotten and not made? -- 3. Do human clones lack individuality? -- 4. Could human clones destroy humanity? -- 5. Does human reproductive cloning harm participants and produce children with birth defects? -- Pt. 2. Anticloning laws are bad public policy -- 6. What anticloning laws say and do -- 7. The five objections have inspired anticloning laws -- 8. Anticloning laws reflect a policy of existential segregation -- 9. The costs of anticloning laws outweigh their benefits -- Pt. 3. Anticloning laws violate the equal protection guarantee and are unconstitutional -- 10. Anticloning laws classify human clones and are subject to strict scrutiny --
11. Anticloning laws inflict judicially cognizable injuries that confer standing -- 12. Anticloning laws violate the equal protection guarantee.
Subject: Human cloning > Law and legislation > United States.
Human reproductive technology > Law and legislation > United States.
Human cloning > Research > Law and legislation.
Human cloning > Moral and ethical aspects.

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