World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1127243320071111?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&rpc=22&sp=true

World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N.


OSLO (Reuters) - The world should quickly ban cloning of humans and only allow exceptions for strictly controlled research to help treat diseases such as diabetes or Alzheimer's, a U.N. study said on Sunday.

Without a ban, experts at the U.N. University's Institute of Advanced Studies said that governments would have to prepare legal measures to protect clones from "potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination".

"A legally-binding global ban on work to create a human clone, coupled with freedom for nations to permit strictly controlled therapeutic research, has the greatest political viability of options available," the study said.

Either human cloning is wrong (and it is) or it's not wrong. You can't have it both ways. By leaving a crack like this in the door, you leave open for interpretation and the inevitability of corruption, i.e. "potential abuse, prejudce, and discrimination".

Looks like the U.N. is on top of their game, once again, :rolleyes:.

[Beowulf]

World should ban human cloning

[TeenageRepublican]

The U.N. yet again proves what moronic powerless people they really are.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

My support of cloning (if "cloning" would even be the correct term to describe it) is limited to the extent science could be used to grow/replace/repair failing or lost limbs or organs. I don't believe entire human bodies, even if kept pertually technically "unconscious," should ever be cloned. Nor do I believe human lives should be snuffed out via destruction of embryos.

We're on the path to hell, destruction, and absolute depraved tyranny as a society when the populace believes they have the right to revoke the unalienable right to life of those weaker than themselves as a means of, not even preserving their own life, but as a mere convenience.

[Reagan Knight]

What about using the cells of organ donors to perhaps duplicate them and create organs and such for people who need them to stay alive?

[DeclinetoState]

When I first saw the title I misread it and thought it said the UN supported a worldwide ban on human clothing.

My bad.

:grin:

[Gonzo67]

Top 10 Reasons to SUPPORT human cloning:

1. Avoid work/jail - "It wasn't me, it was HIM!".
2. Now your "social outcast" child can have a friend to play with!
3. The big time conceited egomaniacs (Tom Cruise for example) can REALLY "love themselves".
4. Personal clothes shopping model. See how it looks on you BEFORE you buy it!
5. Nagging wife/husband argument interceptor.
6. Making your children actually believe that mommy/daddy really DOES see and know all they do!
7. Correcting the "damn, I should have married the hot one" screw up. "Don't worry, I'm not your sisters husband... I'm the clone!"
8. Perfect solution for women who go to clubs and dance alone.
9. Thrill seeking by proxy. Afraid to sky-dive? Push your clone out of the plane!
10. Let's face it... it'll just freak everyone out!

[Aaron]

I'm not a big fan of slippery slope arguments, but in this case I am.

No to human cloning. If they can figure a way out to clone human organs without destroying human life, then I would be all for it if it meant saving lives.