. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Children born by way of SNT might face legal uncertainties, such as con- tested questions about exact (For example, if a child were produced using a cell from a single woman, who, as a matter of law, is the father of that child, if anyone?). Similar problems follow births involving surrogate mothers and donated eggs. Many states resolve the problem of who the mother is - the egg donor or the birth mother - by affirming the birth mother as the mother as a ma
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. Children born by way of SNT might face legal uncertainties, such as con- tested questions about exact (For example, if a child were produced using a cell from a single woman, who, as a matter of law, is the father of that child, if anyone?). Similar problems follow births involving surrogate mothers and donated eggs. Many states resolve the problem of who the mother is - the egg donor or the birth mother - by affirming the birth mother as the mother as a matter of law. Since legislatures could intervene to control some of the status problems associated with SNT births, it is unclear that these questions by themselves amount to a strong reason to bar the technique. Nevertheless, the questions involved in the legal status and entitle- ments of children born this way could provoke considerable legislative and judicial activity. If the techniques of SNT were to become safe in producing children and if the legal standing and entitlements of children born this way could be made perfectly clear, political events might lead to restrictions on reproductive SNT. For example, if large numbers of people opposed reproductive SNT on moral or religious grounds, they might move the levers of the democratic process to restrict the production of children this way. By the same token, reproductive SNT could fall into the mold of IVF and be used to produce children successfully without causing major controversy. SNT techniques might become familiar and routine if they produce healthy children without fundamentally disrupting social Conclusion Human SNT research raises ethical dilemmas in the sense that it forces decisions about which conflicting values and goals to pursue. At this time, there is a strong ethical case for pursuing SNT research and thera- peutic cloning. Aside from major advances in science regarding knowledge of cellular di
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