. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Endnotes 1 Ian Wilmut, et al. "Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells," Nature 385 (1997): 810-813. -' Stem cells are generic somatic cells that have the ability to differentiate into many different kinds of cells. 3 Since such induced twinning does not duplicate an existing adult, it has not been a source of contro- versy and will not be discussed in this report. 'Douglas Steinberg, "Stem Cell Discoveries Stir Debate," The Scie


. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Endnotes 1 Ian Wilmut, et al. "Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells," Nature 385 (1997): 810-813. -' Stem cells are generic somatic cells that have the ability to differentiate into many different kinds of cells. 3 Since such induced twinning does not duplicate an existing adult, it has not been a source of contro- versy and will not be discussed in this report. 'Douglas Steinberg, "Stem Cell Discoveries Stir Debate," The Scientist (vol. 14, no. 22, 13 Novem- ber 2000). 5 Leon Kass, "The Wisdom of Repugnance," in Flesh of my Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans, Gregory E. Pence, ed., (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). 6 For example, see Gregory E. Pence, Re-Creating Medicine (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). ; Some useful starting points include, for example, Ruth F. Chadwick, "Cloning," Philosophy 57 (1982): 201-209; Hans Jonas, Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974); John A. Robertson, "The Question of Human Cloning," Hastings Center Report 24 (1994): 6-14. 8 Most of the issues under debate in cloning human beings may be found in Gregory E. Pence, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998); Gregory E. Pence, ed., Flesh of my Flesh: The Ethics of Cloning Humans (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998); and Martha Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein, eds., Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). 1 The roots of this school of thought lie in John Rawls.^4 Theory of Justice, rev. ed. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1999). 10 See, for example, the views expressed online at 1' Further discussion of the ethics of SNT for research purposes is to be found in Paul Lauritzen. ed., Cloning a


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