Banning human cloning: an acceptable limit on scientific inquiry or an unconstitutional restriction of symbolic speech

MB Hsu - Geo. LJ, 1998 - HeinOnline
Our views of scientific advancement and discovery are marked by ambivalence and mixed
emotions. While society celebrates scientific accomplishment and stands in awe of what …

Human cloning: science fact and fiction

MA Goldman - S. Cal. Interdisc. LJ, 1998 - HeinOnline
The scientific, religious, ethical, and legal worlds were" caught napping by clones" 1 in
February of 1997, when a team led by Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut announced the …

Human cloning and the constitution

CD Forsythe - Valparaiso University Law Review, 1998 - HeinOnline
The recent publicity given to the cloning of a sheep in Scotland and the January 1998
declaration by a Chicago physicist, Richard Seed, that he will attempt to clone a human …

Human cloning: the role of law

SR Martyn - U. Tol. L. Rev., 2000 - HeinOnline
THIS article addresses the legal issues we all will face should human cloning become a
reality. Specifically, I address here the question of not what law can do, but how our society …

The wisdom of repugnance: Why we should ban the cloning of humans

LR Kass - Val. UL Rev., 1997 - HeinOnline
Our habit of delighting in news of scientific and technological breakthroughs has been sorely
challenged by the birth announcement of a sheep named Dolly. Though Dolly shares with …

Does the Thirteenth Amendment Privide a Jurisdictional Basis for a Federal Ban on Cloning

SC Vinck - J. Legis., 2003 - HeinOnline
Over the past several years, human cloning has become the subject of intense public debate
because the possibility of cloned human persons raises grave ethical qualms. For many, the …

Popular cloning versus scientific cloning in ethical debates

LM Silver - NYUJ Legis. & Pub. Pol'y, 2000 - HeinOnline
From the moment the Roslin Institute announced Dolly's birth', the potential for human
cloning elicited worldwide attention, condemnation, and fear. 2 In the remarks that follow, I …

Banning human cloning: A study in the difficulties of defining science

HT Greely - S. Cal. Interdisc. LJ, 1998 - HeinOnline
In legislating, the difficulty of writing a good definition is matched only by its importance.
Dolly the sheep, the first mammal known to be cloned from an adult, 2 is responsible for at …

What's So Strange about Human Cloning

R Rao - Hastings LJ, 2001 - HeinOnline
This essay addresses three questions. First, what exactly is so strange and disturbing about
human cloning? Second, how do the strange and disturbing aspects of cloning translate into …

The ethics of human cloning and the fate of science in a democratic society

KD Pimple - Val. UL Rev., 1997 - HeinOnline
In late February 1997, the world learned that Dr. Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin
Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, had successfully cloned an adult sheep. The cloned …