a View from the Trenches Leon Kass’s, Reflections on Public Bioethics: a View from the Trenches, discusses the Council’s goals and mission, its influence on the public and political debates, and an evaluation of the processes and conclusions the Council faced when producing the five major works in its first term. Kass describes his three …
April 2022 archive
Apr 03
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics – Jennie Lee
In Human Cloning and Human Dignity, Leon Kass discusses the two main purposes of human cloning: cloning to produce children, and cloning for biomedical research. Cloning to produce children (reproductive cloning) is defined as “production of a cloned human embryo, formed for the purpose of initiating a pregnancy, with the (ultimate) goal of producing a …