Reproduktiv kloning: bioteknologi og etik

Reproductive human cloning means cloning a human being, and thereby having an identical person. Human cloning may occur in two types. There is reproductive, which I have chosen to work with, and therapeutic cloning. Although they are close together in the form of human cloning, there is a substantial difference in how these two types are used. The therapeutic form of cloning is intended to be used as a "part". This means that a cell is grown to develop into a particular type of cell, such as cardiac or nerve cells. The reproductive method is not used as a "part" but instead there is created a clone of the person who has given a cell. Some scientists have carried out reproductive cloning of animals. The first cloned animal you got created in this way was Dolly, who was born in 1997. Dolly was a clone of her mother; she was so to say also her mother's twin. Since Dolly there is cloned other animals, including cats, dogs and mice. Reproductive human cloning is illegal almost everywhere in the world, but some scientists are hoping that this kind of cloning is getting legal, so they may eventually come to clone humans. In this task, I have worked across interdisciplinary and used methods from both the profession of religion and from biology. To get a better understanding of my formulation of the problem, which will come below, I have used the two professions methods. These methods are, respectively natural sciences and humanities. Biology is the scientific method, while religion is the humanistic method. Men of Science use the scientific method to get an understanding of the trials they do. There are two models which they can assume; hypothetical deductive method and hypothetical inductive method. When the technology gets better it can possibly lead to conflicts or new, more serious, debates about reproductive cloning of humans.