Article: Jewish law doesn't ban cloning, but experts warn it's still not kosher

Berkofsky, Joe
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
01-14-2003
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (JTA) -- When it comes to cloning, Jews across the
religious spectrum agree that it defies Jewish and scientific sensibilities
-- if not Jewish law.

"If cloning was the way we were supposed to be fertile and replenish the
Earth, as the Bible says, who needs Eve?" says Rosalie Ber, an
international lecturer on bioethics and head of the Medical Education
Department at Haifa's Technion -- Israeli Institute of Technology.

But if Eve were created from Adam's rib, Ber noted, then she was, in a
way, "the first clone."

If that were true, Genesis alone would refute the claims of the group
Clonaid, which recently generated headlines with ...

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