|
|
Article: The clone sars: transhumanists embrace genetic engineering as a means to create a post-human species. If they prevail, all human beings may no longer be "created" equal. (Cover Story: Abortion).
- Article from:
- The New American
- Article date:
- January 13, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
A wit once described the typical Victorian Englishman as "a self-made man who worships his creator." That gibe acquires an ominous undertone when considered in the context of human cloning.
Last November, Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori claimed that a cloned baby boy would be born in January. In December, chemist Brigitte Boisselier, head of a company called Clonaid (an affiliate of a bizarre cult called the "Raelians"), publicly claimed that a baby girl would be born late that month or in early January, with four more cloned babies to arrive by the end of February. Scientists greeted these announcements with disdain, and most specialists believe that ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Wasn't I going to say anything about Mario Cuomo's outdoing ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;
January 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... egregiously dumb op-ed piece in the New York Times a while back in favor of the laboratory exploitation of embryonic stem cells? No, as a matter of fact, I wasn ... and the pro-life office of the New York Catholic Conference solidly on the ...
|
|