Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE FIVE COMMON OBJECTIONS TO HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING REFLECT, REINFORCE, AND INSPIRE STEREOTYPES ABOUT HUMAN CLONES
- PART TWO ANTICLONING LAWS ARE BAD PUBLIC POLICY
- PART THREE ANTICLONING LAWS VIOLATE THE EQUAL PROTECTION GUARANTEE AND ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
PART TWO - ANTICLONING LAWS ARE BAD PUBLIC POLICY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE FIVE COMMON OBJECTIONS TO HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING REFLECT, REINFORCE, AND INSPIRE STEREOTYPES ABOUT HUMAN CLONES
- PART TWO ANTICLONING LAWS ARE BAD PUBLIC POLICY
- PART THREE ANTICLONING LAWS VIOLATE THE EQUAL PROTECTION GUARANTEE AND ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Summary
In Part 2 of this book, the focus shifts from human reproductive cloning to laws against human reproductive cloning.
Chapter 6 addresses laws against cloning that have been proposed, applied, and enacted in the United States, and Chapter 7 demonstrates how the laws are based on the five objections.
Chapter 8 explains that laws against cloning do more than ban an unpopular technology. The laws are intended to ensure that an unpopular class of humans never comes into existence. Reasoning by analogy to antimiscegenation laws, which once banned interracial marriages as a means of avoiding the birth of mixed-race children, I explain how laws against cloning implement a policy of existential segregation against human clones.
Chapter 9 presents an analysis of the costs and benefits of laws against cloning. The discussion begins with costs and emphasizes those that human clones are likely to bear. Next, drawing upon my critique of the five objections, I examine purported benefits and find that they are not substantial enough to justify the laws. I therefore conclude that the laws are bad public policy.
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- Illegal BeingsHuman Clones and the Law, pp. 73 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005