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3. Following are not patentable inventions.
a. human body at the various stages of its formation & development & The simple discovery of one of its elements including the sequence or partial sequence of gene.
b. Processes for cloning human being. c. Processes for modifying the germ line identity of human being.
Inserting the mature nucleus of an adult cell into denucleated egg turn the cells.
Cradicles the firm divide between germ line & somatic line nuclei because each adult cell nucleus is in principle translatable into a germ line cell nucleus by transferring its nucleus & creating a clone.
Defenders of abortion says if fetuses are human being but embryonic human being are not yet persons but it is not wrong to kill always a human being who are not persons.
Other argument that human being in the embryomic stage are not persons because they don't exercise higher mental capacities, or functions.
What is person? Entity that has self-awareness rationality? Is based on false premise. Human / person are physical organism & human organism comes to be at conception' we are living bodily entities. If living body performs bodily action then it is physical organism. Sensation is bodily action.
Judith Thompson compares right to life with right to vote we are not yet valuable in special way that will quality us as right to life special kind of value we acquired after we come into existence. He facts to advert the fact that some rights vary respect to place circumstances maturity. ability & other factors.
Right to life does not come & go with one's location or situation it belongs to human being at all times that he or she exists.
May we use animals in medicine in order to enhance & to extend our lives?
Genetic engineering, xenotransplantation, cloning are continue to take place in animal models before being attempted in human & trial & error is likely to result in increasing no of animals created.
We were successful through genetic engineering & eventually gene therapy in elminating Huntington disease. Are we justified for happy out come through using animals. Whether it is permissible to use animal suffering & lives in order to benefit humans. In Jainism all lives are equally valuable. Religion would never permit abortion but even contraceptive means are not allowed. No religion is aloof of society. Anuvratas celibacy causes are for medical purpose.
Cloning of human embryo is used for
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