HUMAN CLONING? WHY NOT?

Your task is to collect, analyze and evaluate information to generate your own view point and argument on whether or not humans should be cloned and why. To do this, you need to be prepared to answer such questions as the following to clarify and testify your argument:  

1)      What are the benefits of cloning?

2)      What are the potential benefits of human cloning?

3)      What are the risks of cloning?

4)      What are the potential risks of human cloning?

5)      Do the benefits outnumber the risks? Why?

6)      What are the new research and experiments being done currently?

Here are some useful links for you:

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,533501,00.html

http://www.humancloning.org/

http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nbac/pubs/cloning1/cloning.pdf

http://www.usatoday.com/educate/college/healthscience/articles/20030126.htm

Get prepared to discuss your argument with your group members and to write your group report.  

ETHICIST

As an ethicist, your task is to explore, examine, and evaluate your findings on the issue and present your argument on whether or not humans should be cloned and why/why not. Get prepared to answer such questions as the following while you are doing your task:

1)      What are the potential benefits of human cloning?

2)      What are the potential risks of human cloning?

3)      Do we need to clone humans? Why/Why not?

4)      Who should decide to allow or ban human cloning?

5)      What should be the ethical standards?

You might want to follow the links below to carry out your task: 

http://www.genetics-and-society.org/overview/socialjust.html

http://www.genetics-and-society.org/overview/threshold.html

http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/mcgee.html

http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/cloningreport/pcbe_cloning_report.pdf

http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/nbac/pubs/cloning1/cloning.pdf

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076915/

http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~mbernste/ethics.cloninghumans.html

http://www.humancloning.org/essays/lishing.html

Get prepared to discuss your argument with your group members and to write your group report.

LEGISLATOR

As a legislator, you are responsible for exploring the policies, laws and regulations regarding human cloning.  You need to examine, analyze and evaluate your findings to generate your argument and to position yourself in the debate. Try to answer the following questions while carrying out your task:

1)      What are the current policies, laws and regulations regarding human cloning?

2)      Should human cloning be banned or allowed? What should be the role of the governments?

3)      Is there a potential need to control and direct research and experiment on cloning? Who should hold this power? Why?  

The following links might be useful for you:

http://www.genetics-and-society.org/policies/us/cloning.html

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/genetics/rt-shcl.htm

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/genetics/clone.htm

http://www.glphr.org/genetic/genetic.htm

http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/briefs/cloning/index.shtml

Get prepared to discuss your argument with your group members and to write your group report.

As for the power-point presentation, you will be given fifteen minutes. It is advised that you spare a few minutes of your presentation for answering the questions of your classmates (if there will be any).