PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, Human Cloning, Somatic Cell
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Somatic cell nuclear transfer: de-nucleate egg cell (remove the nuclear material, re-nucleate with donor somatic cell, stimulate cell division, transfer embryo to uterus. Perfect identity? (is being replicated in the clone?) Genetic determinism (identify it entire determined by one"s genetic makeup) Con: defects, unnatural (?) (playing god) (natural cancer, viral bacteria medicine generally is unnatural, right to unique identity (?, right to open future (?) (assumes a sort of determinism) Pro: technology advances, genetic relation (?) (wants to be genetically related to your offspring infertility, genetic disease (preventing this in offspring, reproductive liberty (?) (autonomy, organ match (?) (clones would provide genetically identical organs) Moral restriction: reproductive freedom: negative right (just having rf doesn"t entail you to have anything else, only reproductive means, autonomy, contrast procreating despite risk. Individual benefits of human cloning: overcoming infertility, adoption, genetic disease, organ match, end and means, dead child. Individual harms: psychological stress of later twin, worse than not existing? b.
