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Dianne N.irving - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Beware New Prolife Calls for Human Cloning "Bans"
2013Co-Authors: Dianne N.irvingAbstract:It seems to me that a clarion call to ban all Human Cloning is a moral imperative. What is also a moral imperative is that prolife gets the science right so that in supporting certain bills they don't end up actually legally protecting some or even all Human Cloning, thus legally allowing the death and destruction of untold numbers of innocent living Human beings in Cloning research experiments -- not to mention the harm to untold numbers of women into whom these experimental cloned Human embryos are implanted, and then often purposefully aborted.
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Delaware House Passes Fraudulent Human Cloning 'Ban'
2006Co-Authors: Dianne N.irvingAbstract:One would think that by now people who are genuinely interested in banning Human Cloning and who really care about protecting innocent nascent Human beings, patient safety, and women's rights would have gotten it right. But apparently not. .. If Delaware politicians don't want to suffer the same ignominies as South Korea's Hwang, they should seek their scientific information elsewhere from more reliable sources. Hopefully the Delaware politicians will think for themselves and pass a true total Human Cloning ban - protecting vulnerable innocent nascent Human beings, Human patients and women alike.
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Missouri: Fairy Tales Abound in Human Cloning Debates
2005Co-Authors: Dianne N.irvingAbstract:"Scientific" Fairy Tales about Human Cloning are out of control these days in the SHOW ME STATE, attracting foreign handlers and peddlers from as far away as California, New Jersey and abroad! The insane hype, the hard-ball organizing, the thrown-together petitions, the fake science, the media blitz - all very familiar PR by now. The goal seems to be to see who can twist and manipulate the objective scientific facts the most in order to win. Anything goes, everything is allowed, no holds barred, make it up as you go along - as long as it stops that Human Cloning ban!
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"Human Cloning As Infertility 'Treatments'"
2004Co-Authors: Dianne N.irvingAbstract:Extensive Human Cloning, and other forms of Human genetic engineering -- all of which can asexually reproduce new living single-cell Human organisms (Human beings) -- are already being done in IVF clinics, for both "research" and for "reproductive" purposes. Below are just two published research studies documenting (1) the various kinds of Human Cloning techniques available to IVF "clinics", and (2) an example of how it is already being done.
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How to Build a Better Human Cloning Bill or Treaty
2004Co-Authors: Dianne N.irvingAbstract:After having published analyses of dozens of state, national, federal and international legislative attempts to ban Human Cloning research, I simply wish to offer seriously considered suggestions for the use of scientifically accurate language and definitions to be used in such endeavors in order to prevent loopholes which would result in much Human Cloning not being really banned. Many of these accurate definitions can also be used in bills and treaties concerning related issues, e.g., Human embryonic stem cell research, Human genetic engineering, abortion, the use of abortifacients, conscience clauses, IVF and other artificial reproductive technology research and regulation, etc.
Eric Jensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Dao of Human Cloning: Utopian/dystopian hype in the British press and popular films
Public Understanding of Science, 2008Co-Authors: Eric JensenAbstract:The issue of Human Cloning has featured in the national science policy agendas in both the United States and the United Kingdom since the announcement in 1997 of Dolly the cloned sheep's birth in Scotland. Such news stories suggesting the imminent Cloning of Humans have inspired fictional entertainment media over the years, including numerous popular films. Study 1 examines elite British press coverage of Human Cloning from 1997 to 2004 (n = 857). Study 2 focuses on five Human Cloning films released between 1978 and 2003. Two sharply divergent discourses emerged from these data. Unqualified hope and habitually hyped claims of future cures permeated the press discourse. In contrast, the films constructed Human Cloning as an inherently dangerous technology often wielded by hubristic scientists in the tradition of Frankenstein. Both the predominately positive hype in the broadsheet press and the largely negative hype in the films indicate an impoverished and ""thin"" public debate on the issue of Human Cloning.
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Abortion rhetoric in American news coverage of the Human Cloning debate
New Genetics and Society, 2006Co-Authors: Eric Jensen, Lisa H. WeaselAbstract:The issue of Human Cloning has received intense media and political attention since the Cloning of Dolly the sheep was announced in 1997. This research explores the discursive basis for support and opposition to Human Cloning by examining the role of abortion-related rhetoric in constructing the concept of Human Cloning within the American press. An in-depth content analysis of Human Cloning news coverage was conducted on a sample of articles collected from the mainstream press as well as advocacy publications with either a pro-science or Christian fundamentalist orientation. Statistically significant differences were found indicating an important role for abortion rhetoric in the Human Cloning debate. This expansion of abortion rhetoric into the domain of science policy portends a unique and growing problem for resolving bioethical debates within American politics over the future development of biomedical technologies such as Human Cloning.
Dianneirving’s Comments - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nebraska "Prolife" Human Cloning "Ban" Won't Ban Any Cloning
2004Co-Authors: Dianneirving’s CommentsAbstract:Could it be that some Nebraska Senators are "now wavering in their support" because they finally understand that their "prolife" Human Cloning "ban", like the federal bill on which it is explicitly based, won't ban ANY Human Cloning, including the Cloning of Human beings by means of the somatic cell nuclear transfer technique (only one of many Cloning techniques)?
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Arkansas Human Cloning Ban Goes Into Effect
2003Co-Authors: Dianneirving’s CommentsAbstract:This article announces that the Arkansas Human Cloning Ban has gone into effect. However, there is great concern that this bill, along with numerous other bills that purport to be "total Cloning bans" are seriously defective, and would therefore ban no Human Cloning -- either Cloning by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or Cloning by means of many other Human Cloning techniques (e.g., germ line cell nuclear transfer, twinning, pronuclei transfer, etc.). The following commentary, along with quite extensive direct quotations and references, is an effort to clarify the issue for those concerned. I hope these comments can be helpful. -- Dr. Dianne Irving, Ph.D.
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South Carolina House Passes Pro-Life Human Cloning Ban
2003Co-Authors: Dianneirving’s CommentsAbstract:As I have recently indicated with previous analyses of the recent Wisconsin and Louisiana Human Cloning "bans", a number of bills purporting to be "total bans" on Human Cloning have been appearing that are not really "total bans", despite their appearances. To date I have found 10 state Cloning "bans" that fail to be "total bans" for similar reason. The following is a brief analysis of the recent Human Cloning "ban" passed in South Carolina.
M. C. Ingram-waters - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public fiction as knowledge production: the case of the Raelians' Cloning claims
Public Understanding of Science, 2008Co-Authors: M. C. Ingram-watersAbstract:In this article, I follow the construction of the public fiction of the 2002 Raelians' Cloning claims as a site of liminal, or transitional, space for scientific knowledge production. In 2002, the Raelians, a new religious movement, announced the successful birth of Baby Eve, allegedly, the first clone. Baby Eve was quickly denounced as a hoax. Within the media frenzy that led up to and followed Baby Eve's birth, the voices of a core set of pro-Cloning scientists emerged as experts in constructing Human Cloning. These experts used the Raelians' claims to settle several controversies about Human Cloning: reproductive Cloning was unethical while therapeutic Cloning was desirable; scientists who advocated reproductive Cloning were immoral; and Human Cloning was too complex to be achieved by anyone working outside mainstream scientific institutions. Though Baby Eve is undoubtedly a fictional construct, she offered the world an important opportunity to engage the science fiction-like implications of Human Cloning as if they were real.
George J. Annas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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To clone alone: the United Nations' Human Cloning Declaration.
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review, 2020Co-Authors: Rosario Isasi, George J. AnnasAbstract:The United Nations labored for almost four years to create a treaty governing Human Cloning. In 2005 that effort was abandoned, and instead the United Nations' General Assembly adopted a "Declaration on Human Cloning".
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The Prospect of Human Cloning
Biomedical Ethics Reviews, 1998Co-Authors: George J. AnnasAbstract:The prospect of Human Cloning provides Congress with an opportunity to develop an effective regulatory mechanism for novel Human experiments, and to begin to develop worldwide structures to oversee and regulate the new genetics. Human Cloning should be banned, because replicating an existing Human person would create the world’s first Human with a single genetic parent, and unacceptably threatens the resulting clone’s personal identity and individuality. Cloning is replication, not reproduction, and is thus not protected by rights surrounding Human reproduction and sexual activity. Only a ban can shift the burden of proof to scientists to demonstrate that there are vital reasons and safe ways to clone, before proceeding, and is the only effective way of giving society a voice regarding the application of tech?nology that radically alters the very definition of what it is to be Human.