- Cloning Ethics - http://cloning.tripod.com/
Student project introducing the science, compares artificial and natural methods, and presents for and against arguments.
- Should Cloning Be Banned? - http://www.reason.com/biclone.html
Short introduction to the results of banning cloning, with links to other opinion sites, and bills. [Reason Magazine]
- A Spark of Science, a Storm of Controversy - http://www.princetoninfo.com/clone.html
Article by Christopher Mario, with a background on the issue and the controversy, and interviews with experts. [Princeton Info]
- Overcoming Yuk - http://www.wired.com/wired/6.01/morton.html
It may be unnatural, but encouraging genetic choice in humans is not bad. (It's also inevitable.) Says Oliver Morton. [Wired Magazine]
- Cloning: Society, Religion and Technology Project - http://www.srtp.org.uk/cloning.shtml
Conducted by the Church of Scotland, the SRT project is an interdisciplinary working group of experts (including Ian Wilmut), covering both human and non-human animal cloning.
- Should We Be Cloning Around? - http://cnn.com/TECH/9702/24/cloned.sheep/
The announcement that a team of British scientists had successfully cloned an adult sheep has touched off a new wave of discussion over the ethical implications of such a feat. [CNN]
- Myths About Twins: Public Perceptions of Cloning - http://www.genesage.com/professionals/geneletter/archives/twins.html
Twins are feared in many cultures, and sometimes one is killed at birth, does this affect peoples perception of cloning? [Gene Letter]
- Close the Door on Cloning - http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith011402.shtml
Pro-life perspective on human cloning by Wesley J. Smith from National Review Online
- Cloning: Mammalian Development - http://194.83.182.241/MillHillEssays/1997/cloning.htm
Rosa Beddington, UK National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Mill Hill Essays.
- A Clone in Sheep's Clothing - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009B07D-BD40-1C59-B882809EC588ED9F
Tim Beardsley writes how a sheep cloned from adult cells opens vast scientific possibilities and ethical dilemmas. [Scientific American]
- Neither Person Nor Property - http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/lauritzen.htm
Embryo research and the status of the early embryo is examined by Paul Lauritzen argues for a middle ground between those who argue that the embryo is a person and those who say it is property.
- Cloning and Catholic Ethics - http://www.americancatholic.org/News/Cloning/default.asp
Explains the Catholic Church's opposition to cloning and stem-cell research on human embryos, with resources from a Catholic ethicist, Pope John Paul II and others.
- Scientists Defend Clone Research - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3982849,00.html
Ethics body backs cloning move. Report seeks legalisation of embryo research to tackle disease. [News Unlimited]
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