한국 개신교신학과 윤리

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ㆍ작성일	2002-12-30 (월) 10:53

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미리 new year 신4, 신상근
한학기 감사했구요 새해 복 많이 받으세요
자료는 뜻도 모르고 무조건 옮겨봅니다.
요즘 이슈가되는 복제에 대한 이야기를 찾는다고 했는데
언젠가 소화할 날이 있을런지..........
yahoo에서 cloning로 검색했습다.

Reasons Against Cloning
Should we ban human cloning? Arguments against cloning

1. Health risks from mutation of genes - an abnormal baby would be a nightmare come
true. The technique is extremely risky right now. A particular worry is the possibility that
the genetic material used from the adult will continue to age so that the genes in a newborn
baby clone could be - say - 30 years old or more on the day of birth. Many attempts at
animal cloning produced disfigured monsters with severe abnormalities. So that would
mean creating cloned embryos, implanting them and destroying (presumably) those that
look imperfect as they grow in the womb. However some abnormalities may not appear till
after birth. A cloned cow recently died several weeks after birth with a huge abnormality of
blood cell production.
2. Emotional risks - a child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, her grandmother
is her mother. Her father is her brother-in-law. Every time her mother looks at her she is
seeing herself growing up. Unbearable emotional pressures on a teenager trying to
establish his or her identity. What happens to a marriage when the "father" sees his wife's
clone grow up into the exact replica (by appearance) of the beautiful 18 year old he fell in
love with 35 years ago? A sexual relationship would of course be with his wife's twin, no
incest involved technically. You will not find a child psychiatrist in the world who could
possibly say that there will not be very significant emotional risk to the cloned child as a
result of these pressures.
3. Risk of abuse of the technology - what would Hitler have done with cloning technology
if available in the 1940s? There are powerful leaders in every generation who will seek to
abuse this technology for their own purposes. Going ahead with cloning technology
makes this far more likely. You cannot have so-called therapeutic cloning without
reproductive cloning because the technique to make cloned babies is the same as to make
a cloned embryo to try to make replacement tissues. In any case it is a myth that you will
get organs from cloned embryos. At best you will get clusters of cells. And at the speed
at which biotech is accelerating there will soon be other ways to get such cells. It is rather
crude to create a complete embryonic identical twin embryo just to get hold of stem cells
to make - say - nervous tissue. Much better to take cells from the adult and trigger them
directly to regress to a more primitive form without the ethical issues raised by inserting a
full adult set of genes into an unfertilised egg.
Dr Patrick Dixon is author of Futurewise , and is heavily involved in media debates on
genetics. Should scientists be told when to stop? Web TV
Search for more on cloning on this site
Full text of The Genetic Revolution - book by Dr Patrick Dixon