ArticleJournal of medical ethics1999
Should we clone human beings? Cloning as a source of tissue for transplantation.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- When to create embryos or organoids for research.Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- The moral imperative to continue gene editing research on human embryos.Protein & cell · 2015Article
- Consequentialism without consequences: ethics and embryo research.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2010Article
- Destroying unwanted embryos in research. Talking Point on morality and human embryo research.EMBO reports · 2009Article
- Overcritical, overfriendly? A dialogue between a sociologist and a philosopher on genetic technology and its applications.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2005Article
- What exactly is an exact copy? And why it matters when trying to ban human reproductive cloning in Australia.Journal of medical ethics · 2003Article
- Human reproductive cloning is unethical because it undermines autonomy: commentary on Savulescu.Journal of medical ethics · 1999Article
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Abstract
The most publicly justifiable application of human cloning, if there is one at all, is to provide self-compatible cells or tissues for medical use, especially transplantation. Some have argued that this raises no new ethical issues above those raised by any form of embryo experimentation. I argue that this research is less morally problematic than other embryo research. Indeed, it is not merely morally permissible but morally required that we employ cloning to produce embryos or fetuses for the sake of providing cells, tissues or even organs for therapy, followed by abortion of the embryo or fetus.
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