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Human Stem Cells in Medical Science, Ethical Values and Limits

Henk Jochemsen

This article considers some ethical questions relating to stem cell research. It considers three ethical approaches in particular: duty ethics, goal ethics, and virtue ethics. Afterwards, it considers the use of human embryos, therapeutic cloning, and the use of adult stem cells.

Human Life Is Not Sheep: An Ethical Perspective on Cloning

in February 1997 Scottish geneticists successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly. This was a milestone in modern biotechnology. This article attempts to react to the ethical aspects of cloning from a Christian perspective. The argument of this essay is that Christians ought to encourage a moratorium on human cloning because there do not appear to be any motives or reasons for cloning that are in harmony with God's design for human existence.

The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life

This article is about human embryos and cloning human embryos. The article also looks at man as the image of God and the beginning of life.

The Brave New World of Cloning

This article looks at animal cloning, human cloning and reproduction, humans as the image of God, genetic manipulation, and human cloning and family.

Embryo Cloning and the Treatment of Disease

This article discusses reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. Both of these go against the biblical definition of what it means to be a person, having been created in God’s image. This article explains why Christians must stand up and fight against the practice of cloning.

Cloning: Maybe?

This article shows that there are some strong biblical grounds to rule out cloning as wrong due to the destruction of life. However, the author also proposes a few arguments in support of cloning.