Abstract

This paper discusses the topic of engineering immortality, which is used as an ethical argument in support of human cloning. While many of the legal and religious responses to the ethical issue of human cloning focus on the use of embryos as a means to an end (for reproductive or therapeutic purposes) and onthe concern for human dignity, an argument for achieving human immortality through human cloning has rarely been considered. This paper presents, from a Christian theological perspective, a response to the argument for engineering immortality by human cloning. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9.3 (Autumn 2009): 447–451.