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KMID : 1172020040050010071
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2004 Volume.5 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.89
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A Study of Buddhist View on Embryo Cloning
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Kwak Man-Youn
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Abstract
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The usefulness of embryo cloning has been proposed in that it can produce transplanting organ massively, solve some hard-to-cure diseases, and bring promising hopes to sterile spouses. But embryo cloning cannot always be beneficial to human beings as it necessarily presupposes great unpredictable problems in both technological and ethical aspects. Once permitted, it will eventually lead to human cloning. Before long, we will have real problem about us, such as the instrumentation of human beings, the invasion of human uniqueness and individuality, the destruction of parent-children relations and so forth. Also, we will face the possibility of using the embryos commercially and hurting human dignity. At present, lots of people are raising their voices against the permission of embryo cloning and the possibility of human cloning. In addition, there′s a heated controversy about the life of embryos, the beginning point of human life. However
hard is opposition, however, scientists will continue to experiment embryo reproduction by triggering the basic human instinct to have eternal life. Further conjecture in this direction would take us away from our main theme,
and for the present we will simply note that embryo loss poses no real problem to the Buddhist belief that individual life when it begins, begins at fertilisation. The phenomenon of embryo loss does not show that the embryos which are lost cannot be human individuals. The statistic quoted in that connection are simply irrelevant one way or the other to the question of when life beings.
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KEYWORD
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embryo cloning, a view of embryo of buddhism, a view of human of buddhism
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