Chapter 18: Stem Cell Research, Cloning and Genetic Engineering

1. Chapter 18: Stem Cell Research, Cloning and Genetic Engineering • Background: Stem Cell Research • A part of Regenerative medicine • Explanation and definition • Legal and ethical issues • The use of adult stem cells • Human cloning • Therapeutic cloning • Reproductive cloning

2. Chapter 18: continued • Ethical issues in cloning: objections • Playing God • Clones would lack individuality • Clones you not have an open future • Clones could be exploited • Confusion within families • The “yuck” factor

3. Chapter 18: continued • Genetic Engineering • Decoding the genome • Ethical issues • Genetically Modified Plants and Animals • Ethical issues

4. Chapter 18: continued • Genetic Screening • The value of privacy • Screening and conflicts of interest

5. Chapter 18: continued • Reading: The Wisdom of Repugnance • The inherent procreative teleology of sexuality itself • Why people are repelled by human cloning • The three contexts in which cloning is discussed • We are accustomed to the natural way of human reproduction

6. Chapter 18: continued • Asexual reproduction as a radical departure • Three areas of being vulnerable to human cloning • The soul elevating power of sexuality • The sum of human procreation

7. Chapter 18: continued • Reading: Illegal Beings:Human Clones and the Law • The natural and the unnatural • Cloning and IVF • Cloning as asexual • Is asexual really contrary to nature? • Using technology to expand our inborn capacities

8. Chapter 18: continued • The misunderstandings of the cloning activities • Cloning as a science includes changes • The steps involved in cloning • The Dolly experiment • Additional experiments beyond Molly • Media exaggerations • Every public policy has dangers