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Vol. 58 No. 5 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2009.233
La clonazione umana nella legislazione della Corea del Sud
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The day after the publication on Nature of the birth of Dolly the sheep, realized by the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a large debate around cloning and the possibility to use such procedure for the production of human embryos and human embryo stem cells (hESCs) has been developed. The large number of present experiments greatly worried the Korean society, divided among the possibilities offered by the new technologies to a Country without natural resources and the necessity to establish a limit that can not be overcome. In 2004 and 2005 the news of the production of hESC by cloning human embryos from Hwang is published on Science; in 2006 an international scandal following the discovery of scientific fraud from the same researcher arouse, that shocks the Korean society to the point that it has been urged to legislate. Despite the human cloning for reproductive purposes prohibition, both SCTN and the production of hESC, as well as the possibility of oocytes donation for experimental purposes is allowed. It is evident that the basic problem is, first of all, ethical and it deals with the respect of life of human embryo and women's dignity used as a tool to get purposes that are unconnected with them.
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La clonazione umana nella legislazione della Corea del Sud. (2009). Medicina E Morale, 58(5). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2009.233
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