Human Dignity and Human Cloning
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Human Dignity and Human Cloning
Edited by Silja Vöneky and Rüdiger Wolfrum
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
A C.I.p. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Printed on acid-free paper. ISBN 978-90-04-14233-6 ISBN 978-94-017-6174-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-6174-1
© 2004 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Koninklijke Brill NY, Leiden, The Netherlans in 2004. Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 2004 All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmirted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without wrirten permission from the Publisher.
Table of Contents Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wo/frum) ................................................ XI List of Contributors ................................................................................ XV List of Abbreviations ............................................................................. XIX
Part 1: Human Creation and Human Dignity in Religious and Ethical Perspectives 1.
The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslamz) ..................................................................................... 3
2.
The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley) ............................................................................................... 13
3.
Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter) .................................................................................... 23
4.
The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming) ................ 35
5.
Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann) ............ 47
Part 2: Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective 6.
Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker) ......................................................................................... 55
Human Dignity and Human Cloning
VI
Part 3: Limits to Human Cloning under the German Constitution 7.
The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck) ................................................................................................. 63
8.
Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (jörn Ipsen) ......................................................................................... 69
9.
Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier) ..................................................................... 77
10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum) .................................... 87 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and LegalPolitical Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries) ............................... 107
Part 4: Limits to Human Cloning in International Law 12. International Legal Limits
to
Human Cloning (Hans Lilie) ........ 125
13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights
