Recommended Resources on Cloning & Bioethics
Senior Policy Analyst for the American Center for Law & Justice on Cultural & Worldview Studies offers the following resources on cloning and Bioethics:
The issue of Cloning and Bioethics is one that the church and the average Christian know very little about. That is sad, since it is going to be the most contentious debate on the life issues for the next few years.
It is important for Christians to develop a framework for thinking about this issue based on a Biblical and Christian worldview--so that we may answer intelligently the arguments from advocates of cloning which seem so "sensible." Proverbs 16:25 says: "There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." The resources below will give you some information to help equip you to be effective defenders of truth in the world in which you live.
Internet Resources
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
Engaging Life and Health Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
http://www.cbhd.org/
DO NO HARM: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
NEW SCIENTIST REPORTS: "ULTIMATE STEM CELL DISCOVERED" - AND IT'S NOT EMBRYONIC
Research may render recent NAS cloning endorsement moot.
http://www.stemcellresearch.org/pr/pr20020124.htm
Christian Medical & Dental Associations
Information on many topics in medicine and medical ethics presented from a Christian perspective.
http://www.cmdahome.org/
The Brave New World of Cloning: A Christian Worldview Perspective
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
http://www.sbts.edu/mohler/FidelitasRead.php?article=fidel011
The Wisdom of Repugnance: by Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Council
on Bioethics and Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fertility/readings/cloning.html
Preventing A Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Cloning Now
by Leon Kass
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/052101/kass052101_print.html
Books
Both of the following books are written from a Christian perspective with a wide range of disciplines represented:
Bio-engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today
Edited by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Scott E. Daniels, and Barbara J. White
Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI, 2000
Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes?
Edited by John F. Killner, Rebecca D. Pentz and Frank E Young
Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI,