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SC300
Unit Seven
Phyllis J. Langone, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.B.A., M.S., M.A.
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Agenda
1. Cloning
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Therapeutic
Reproductive
Benefits
Dangers
Policy
Conservation Efforts
Frozen Ark
Q&A
Therapeutic cloning
Reproductive cloning
Benefits
of Cloning
“… the Food and Drug Administration has
concluded that meat and milk from clones of
cattle, swine (pigs), and goats, and the offspring
of clones from any species traditionally
consumed as food, are as safe to eat as food
from conventionally bred animals” (FDA, 2008).
Dangers of Cloning
Dangers of Cloning
Policy
Overview of World Human Cloning Policies:
http://cnx.org/content/m14834/latest/?collection=col10445/1.1
Cloning Complex Animals
The Frozen Ark Project
"Saving the DNA and the viable cells of the world's endangered animals"
http://www.frozenark.org
Should humans be cloned?
March 9, 2009, President Obama stated “I can … promise that we will
never undertake this research lightly. We will support it only when it is both
scientifically worthy and responsibly conducted… And we will ensure that
our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human
reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our
society, or any society.” (Full text available on www.whitehouse.gov)
Should humans be cloned?