Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Hughes on Code 46



From Wikipedia: "The film Code 46's retro-futurist depiction of the necessity to enforce laws against "genetic incest" is sometimes cited by bioconservatives as another reason why reprogenetics is a bad idea. However, bioethicist James Hughes argues that such laws are 1) not only an infringement on the reproductive rights of citizens but 2) they have no rationale in public health (which should not be confused with procreative beneficence), and only make sense as a moral panic-induced reaction to the idea of possible "incest" among clones of a brother and sister, or other combination coupling."

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