See. for example, from ethicists, Kurt Bayertz, GenEthics: Technological Intervention in Human Reproduction as a Philosophical Problem (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Arthur Caplan, Moral Matters (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1995); and most extensively, Andrew Kimbrell, The Human Body Shop(London: Harper Collins Religious, 1993). From the magesterium see Instruction of Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation”, 1987 SCDF;Donum Vitae, 1987; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1994.
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For more detailed information on this process, see Bruce Alberts, Nature, “Molecular Biology of the Cell” (Roslin Institute, 1994).
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News of seven month old Dolly was first published in the popular press February 24, 1997, putting her birth sometime during the month of August, 1996.
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These developments are traced in Kimbrell's book, The Human Body Shop.
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Most simply, the categorical imperative of Kantian deontology engages subjects to treat all others with mutually regarding respect as a “golden rule”; thus, never treat others as means only, but always as ends in themselves. Perhaps more poignantly, however, is an inherent offense to the justice due the other as an other. That is, not because if I do some good (or harm) to you, you may in turn do a like thing to me but, because you are deserving this as a person.
