What is included with this book?
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Poem: Mary Had a Little Lamb | p. xv |
From Dolly to Humans? | p. 1 |
Dolly's Importance and Promise | p. 9 |
What Ian Wilmut Did and Why It Was Important | p. 9 |
Background on Cloning | p. 11 |
What Cloning Can and Cannot Physically Reproduce | p. 13 |
The New Genetic Age | p. 15 |
Genetic Contributions of the Host Egg | p. 17 |
The Mistake of Genetic Determinism | p. 21 |
The False Seers of Assisted Human Reproduction | p. 25 |
Beware False Prophets of Doom | p. 25 |
Clone Furor: First Wave | p. 29 |
Clone Furor: Second Wave | p. 30 |
Clone Furor: Third Wave | p. 31 |
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) | p. 34 |
Misconceptions | p. 39 |
Our Legacy from Science Fiction | p. 39 |
Making Women Visible | p. 44 |
They Would Be People | p. 45 |
You Can't Reproduce Yourself | p. 49 |
Lack of Informed Consent Doesn't Matter | p. 52 |
Scientists Aren't Frankensteins and Strangeloves | p. 52 |
Reproductive Freedom Doesn't Lead to Coercive State Eugenics | p. 56 |
Four Questions about Ethics | p. 59 |
Case #1--Sarah and Abe Shapiro | p. 59 |
Does the Rule Intrude Too Much on Personal Liberty? | p. 61 |
What Is the Point of the Moral Rule? | p. 62 |
Why Assume the Worst Motives? | p. 64 |
Why Fear Slippery Slopes? | p. 66 |
Cloning and Sex | p. 73 |
Making Babies without Sex: Morally Repugnant? | p. 74 |
Plain Sex | p. 78 |
Meilaender's Testimony | p. 79 |
Twinning Human Embryos | p. 85 |
Overview of the Embryo Controversy | p. 85 |
Why Embryos Are Not Persons | p. 87 |
Controversies about Embryos | p. 89 |
The Futility of the Human Embryo Research Panel | p. 89 |
Embryo Research Today: The Craziness of the Hughes Incident | p. 91 |
The Importance of Wilmut's Discoveries for Understanding Humans | p. 95 |
New Calls for Banning Research on Embryos | p. 95 |
What Is Lost in Research | p. 96 |
Recommendations of NBAC | p. 97 |
Arguments for Allowing Human Asexual Reproduction | p. 99 |
Case #2--John and Elsie Kennedy | p. 99 |
Personal Liberty and the Right to Self-Reproduce | p. 100 |
Benefit to Children--Improving Genetic Inheritance | p. 101 |
Case #3--Richard Dunaway | p. 102 |
Case #4--Robert Atworthy | p. 104 |
Benefit to Children--Genetic Therapy/Correcting Genetic Disease | p. 105 |
Aiding Infertile Couples | p. 106 |
Valuing the Genetic Connection | p. 108 |
Generalizing the Genetic Connection | p. 110 |
Rawls' Argument | p. 112 |
Children for Gay Men and Lesbians | p. 114 |
Arguments against Human Asexual Reproduction | p. 119 |
Against the Will of God | p. 119 |
Fear of the New and Different | p. 122 |
Genetic Diversity and Evolution | p. 129 |
Risk of Harm to the Child | p. 131 |
A Point about Control | p. 140 |
Increasing Prejudice against the Disabled | p. 141 |
Fostering Sexism | p. 142 |
Class Injustice | p. 143 |
The Slippery Slope | p. 144 |
Nature versus Nurture | p. 146 |
Regulating Human Cloning | p. 151 |
The John Moore Case | p. 151 |
The Case against Regulation of NST | p. 152 |
The Case for Regulation | p. 154 |
The Issue of Multiples | p. 158 |
Against Commercialization of NST | p. 159 |
Conclusions | p. 163 |
The Quality of the Arguments in the NST Debate | p. 163 |
The Unreality of the Human Embryo Debate | p. 164 |
What Might a Good Religious Objection to NST Look Like? | p. 165 |
Improving Humanity | p. 167 |
Alternative Pasts and Social Control | p. 170 |
Beneficent Multiples | p. 172 |
A Final Prediction | p. 174 |
Index | p. 177 |
About the Author | p. 183 |
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