Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law
Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law
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非法存在：克隆人与法律
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10.1017/cbo9780511511479
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2005
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K. Macintosh
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K. Macintosh
许多人认为人类生殖克隆应该是一种犯罪。一些州已经宣布克隆为非法，国会正在努力制定一项全国性禁令。同时，国内外的科学研究仍在继续。不久，生殖性克隆可能成为可能。如果发生这种情况，克隆是无法停止的。不孕夫妇和其他人将选择通过克隆来生孩子，即使他们必须违反法律。这本书解释说，最常见的反对克隆是错误的或夸大。这些反对意见反映并激发了对人类克隆的不合理的刻板印象。反克隆法强化了这些刻板印象，并将克隆人污名化为次等人类和不值得存在。这不仅伤害了克隆人，也伤害了我们社会赖以生存的平等主义。这本书用同样的理由来推翻种族隔离，认为反克隆法违反了平等保护保障，是违宪的。
Many people think human reproductive cloning should be a crime. Some states already have outlawed cloning and Congress is working to enact a national ban. Meanwhile, scientific research continues here and abroad. Soon reproductive cloning may become possible. If that happens, cloning cannot be stopped. Infertile couples and others will choose to have babies through cloning, even if they have to break the law. This book explains that the most common objections to cloning are false or exaggerated. The objections reflect and inspire unjustified stereotypes about human clones. Anti-cloning laws reinforce these stereotypes and stigmatize human clones as subhuman and unworthy of existence. This injures not only human clones but also the egalitarianism upon which our society is based. Applying the same reasoning used to invalidate racial segregation, this book argues that anti-cloning laws violate the equal protection guarantee and are unconstitutional.