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Cloning, killing, and identity.

J McMahan1

  • 1University of Illinois at Urbana, USA.

Journal of Medical Ethics
|May 5, 1999
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Human cloning could provide organs for transplant. Killing a clone before seven months of fetal gestation is permissible, as it prevents existence rather than ending a life. This supports organ transplantation from early-stage clones.

Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Developmental Biology
  • Reproductive Technologies

Background:

  • Cloning offers potential for organ and tissue transplantation.
  • Ethical objections to human cloning often center on the moral status of the clone and the permissibility of ending its life.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the ethical permissibility of using human clones for organ transplantation.
  • To determine the moral status of a human clone during early developmental stages.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation based on developmental biology and ethics.
  • Analysis of the concept of personhood and the criteria for moral status.

Main Results:

  • Entities essentially identical to humans do not exist until approximately the seventh month of fetal gestation.
Keywords:
Analytical ApproachGenetics and ReproductionPhilosophical Approach

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  • Killing a clone before this stage is ethically permissible as it prevents existence, not terminates a life.
  • Moral objections to killing a clone remain weak until significant psychological maturation.

    • Conclusions:

    • The early developmental stages of a human clone do not possess the moral status that would prohibit their use for organ transplantation.
    • Killing a clone in its early development is ethically permissible to facilitate organ and tissue procurement for transplantation.