Ethics and Reproductive Technology

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This paper introduces the issue of reproductive technology, with a focus on stem cell research. It questions the right of religious movements to influence breakthroughs in science, citing the arguments by pro-stem cell research camps that these new methods are beneficial to humankind with a potential to treat a multitude of diseases. The paper searches for an answer to the question as to what makes a soul, looking at different religions and experts in the field for their beliefs on the subject.

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"Orrin Hatch, Republican senator of Utah, is both a Mormon and a former medical liability lawyer. He agreed, "I cannot equate a child living in the womb, with moving toes and fingers and a beating heart, with an embryo in a freezer." And yet Dr. David . Prentice, a professor of life sciences at Indiana State University, says that when sperm and egg join, a new genome is created, and that constitutes personhood. "What makes us a human being?" he asks. "It's the genome.""

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