Cloning and Penal Limitations of Scientific Experiment

• Main Author: Rustin-Petru CIASC
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Danubius University 2014-03-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Danubius: Juridica
• Subjects: human cloning; bioethical; stem cells; reproduction; therapeutic
• Online Access: http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/juridica/article/view/2331/2070

Human cloning is one of the matters that have been broadly discussed at a scientific and legal level. In this article, I will present the worldwide relevant aspects as regards this. The bioethical substantiation of forbidding human cloning is made, first, by the fact that the artificial cloning of a human being is a threat to the human identity because it endangers the protection against predetermining the human genetic constitution by a third party; the human dignity is thus endangered by transforming the human being into an object by artificial cloning. Given the insufficient coverage that the national legislation provides to this topic, according to the legislative experience belonging to other countries, this article presents some legislative proposals in order to fill in at least partially such gaps.