God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Contents iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Introduction 1
• Part One - Frameworks 5
• One - Religion Meets Research 7
• Two - What is the Appropriate Contribution of Religious Communities in the Public Debate on Embryonic Stem Cell Research? 19
• Three - The Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research 29
• Part Two - Embryos 65
• Four - Does the Human Embryo Have a Moral Status? 67
• Five - Is a Human Embryo a Human Being? 77
• Six - Principles and Politics: Beyond the Impasse Over the Embryo 88
• Seven - To Be Willing to Kill What for All One Knows is a Person is to Be Willing to Kill a Person 98
• Part Three - Research 109
• Eight - A Plea for Beneficence: Refraining the Embryo Debate 111
• Nine - Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Ethics in the Face of Uncertainty 131
• Ten - Freedoms, Duties, and Limits: the Ethics of Research in Human Stem Cells 141
• Eleven - Talking like Believers: Christians and Jews in the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate 152
• Appendices 161
• Appendix A - Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells 163
• Appendix B - Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the Perspective of Orthodox Christianity: a Statement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America 172
• Appendix C - Urgent Action Alert: Urge Senators to Support Complete Ban on Human Cloning 177
• Appendix D - Resolution: on Human Embryonic and Stem Cell Research 179
• Appendix E - Support for Federally Funded Research on Embryonic Stem Cells 181
• Appendix F - Overture 01–50. on Adopting a Resolution Enunciating Ethical Guidelines for Fetal Tissue and Stem Cell Research—from the Presbytery of Baltimore 185
• Appendix G - A Theologian's Brief on the Place of the Human Embryo Within the Christian Tradition, and the Theological Principles for Evaluating Its Moral Status 190
• Appendix H - Cloning Research, Jewish Tradition and Public Policy: a Joint Statement by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and the Rabbinical Council of America 204
• Appendix I - Human Cloning and Human Dignity: an Ethical Inquiry 206
• Contributors 223
• Index 225

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