A study of human cloning in Iran's law and in jurisprudence
| Autor | Adeleh Keshmiri, Hamid Masjed Saraei, Davood Dadashnezhad |
| Páginas | 1-14 |
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 8 - Nº 02 - Ano 2019 – Special Edition
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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A STUDY OF HUMAN CLONING IN IRAN’S LAW AND IN
JURISPRUDENCE
Adeleh Keshmiri 1
Hamid Masjed Saraei2
Davood Dadashnezhad3
Abstract: Human cloning is a new
phenomenon that is still in the early
amazing stage. In biology, cloning
means “proliferation of a living creature
without sexual intercourse” and is
currently referred to embryonic
implantation in the womb which is
originally produced in the laboratory. In
other words, cloning is the creation of a
genetically identical copy of a human or
animal that, by replacing the core of the
referred person’s cell and multiplying it,
results in the production of a person
exactly identical (or a c opy) of the first
person. The process is that researchers
first replace nuclei of an ovum with
DNA of other cells, then protect them in
the laboratory to proliferate and change
to embryos. If the embryo is implanted in
the womb and a human being is born,
1 PhD student, Department of Islamic jurisprudence, Damghan branch, Islamic Azad University,
Damghan, Iran. Email: dadashnejaddavood@yahoo.com.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Islamic jurisprudence, Damghan branch, Islamic Azad
University, Damghan, Iran. Email: dadashnejaddavood@yahoo.com.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic jurisprudence, Damghan branch, Islamic Azad
University, Damghan, Iran. Email: dadashnejaddavood@yahoo.com.
human reproduction has done. I view of
Islamic jurists; human cloning is
forbidden for many reasons. The present
paper tries to study the cloning issue, its
negative and positive consequences, and
the reactions that have been shown in the
world of Christianity and the West and
Islamic world.
Keywords: Reproductive cloning,
therapeutic cloning, Islamic world,
ethical or moral issues.
Introduction
Many say that we are in the
halfway of a biotechnological
revolution. There have been many
significant new technologies over the
past twenty years that can produce new
drugs for treating disease, alter genetic
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