ethical question Archive

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Should we clone a human?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

A US fertility expert last week claimed to have implanted cloned embryos into women in an attempt to produce a cloned child, and apparently there is no shortage of volunteers. So why not allow human reproductive cloning?

Human enhancement: Are we going cyborg?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

A conference on human enhancement suggests the ethics of human enhancement will be the single most important issue in science & society in this century. So what is human enhancement and why is it raising the ethical hackles of many, yet exciting others? What should be morally permissible and what should not?

please ignore this test

Thursday, January 1st, 2009