Human Cloning: A Prudential Personalist Ethical Appraisal

For many years medical ethicists and religious organizations have asked questions bordering ethical consideration on cloning. This is because ethical uncertainty hangs over a related area of cloning humans. Ethical issues arise not only in the clinical setting but in the laboratory as well. The morality of manipulating human genes is the foremost ethical issue among scientists and religious scholars. Previous researches have not adequately employed the ‘ideal’ ethical models to appraise the morality of human cloning. This paper is an attempt aimed at evaluating the human cloning technology using the Personalism and Prudential Personalism ethico-religious models to arrive at a workable moral paradigm. The paper concludes that cloning humans negate respect for human life, human dignity and communal goals.

Author(s): Peter. O. O. Ottuh

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