I personally disagree that human cloning is inevitable to be part of our lives.
I believe it is outrageous for governments to 'allow' any kind of experiments
which encourage cloning methods to 'threaten' the unique particularities of
human beings in our time!
It is interesting that the Council of Europe is putting ahead a protocol to
forbid cloning methods to be used in Europe. There are already few countries
which participate in this initiative. Uk and Belgium are the two countries
which cloning is allowed to take place. I hope that the two countries will sign
and participate in the Council of Europe initiative.
Antonios Ganas
PGME,
University of Warwick
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> Ahmad wrote:
> >
> > > Does the list of gp-uk follow the latest developments in human cloning?
> >
> > It is inevitable that it will happen.
> >
> > Better start thinking of the implications, benefits and dangers.
> >
> > Ahmad
> >
>
> For my part, I find the idea of human cloning totally repugnant.
> Sheer emotional response, but there it is.
>
> However, Ahmad may well be right that it is inevitable. I would
> want any attempt made illegal, with some fairly swingeing penalties
> for any who do attempt, regardless of their success or failure. The
> real issues seem to me to arise if/when there is an (illegal) attempt
> which is succesful.
>
> Can Graham Ross (or someone else?) tell us what the current legal
> position is in the UK? And elsewhere? My belief is that it is
> illegal in the UK, and that the US government has made noises, but so
> far done nothing.
>
> Mike Wells
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