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PART TWO - ANTICLONING LAWS ARE BAD PUBLIC POLICY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2009

Kerry Lynn Macintosh
Affiliation:
Santa Clara University, California
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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 Beings
Human Clones and the Law
, pp. 73 - 74
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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