. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Executive Summary Among recent technological and scientific advances, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SNT) - the technol- ogy of human cloning - presents some of the most exciting prospects for the enhancement of human understanding and human well-being. But SNT also presents some of the most daunting ethical and political challenges of any new technology In this report we explain the science of SNT and explore the medical and scientific implications of that technique; we
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Executive Summary Among recent technological and scientific advances, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SNT) - the technol- ogy of human cloning - presents some of the most exciting prospects for the enhancement of human understanding and human well-being. But SNT also presents some of the most daunting ethical and political challenges of any new technology In this report we explain the science of SNT and explore the medical and scientific implications of that technique; we examine some of the most important ethical and religious responses to SNT and to human cloning; and we discuss the legal and policy environment relevant to SNT research and human cloning. Our conclusions are these:. 2fcP *â¢â *. 1. The results of further research in SNT could be extraordinarily beneficial to human society. Those benefits are likely to include development of new and more effective medical therapies for such conditions as cancer, Parkinson's dis- ease, and damaged vital organs. They would also include a greater understand- ing of the process of biological differen- tiation, whereby undifferentiated stem cells become the different organs of a body, and of pathological biological processes, such as cancers. 2. Therapeutic cloning raises moral and ethical questions because it involves creation and destruction of human embryos. The major religious traditions disagree on whether embryos have souls. On the other hand, they generally agree on the obligation of society to care for the sick and suffering. In that sense, SNT research that leads to therapies to alleviate the conditions of profoundly diseased people would seem to be a moral priority. In any case, the creation and destruction of human embryos is allowed under existing public policies for other areas of research and medical practice. 3. SNT research may lead to the cloning of entire human beings. There is
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