Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
ISSN
0162-9174
Publisher
University of Dayton Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
The chant is "cloning, cloning, cloning"; but the echo is "choice, choice, choice." From all the hoopla about human cloning as a human choice it would seem that cloning must be the most important scientific issue of our age. My intent in this Commentary is not to join this chorus, but to take advantage of cloning's high visibility to explore the nature of the choice it offers. What is it that makes human cloning at once so appealing to a few and so repulsive to most? The answer, I think, can be found in Roman mythology: Cloning recalls Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Human Cloning: A Choice or an Echo
,
in
23
University of Dayton Law Review
247
(1998).
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