Abstract
Numerous uncertainties are hanging over the biotechnology of human cloning which has prompted medical ethicists and religious organizations to ask questions that bordered on its ethical and religious considerations. In cloning humans, ethical and religious issues arise both in its clinical and laboratory settings hence, the morality of manipulating human genes is the foremost ethical issue among scientists and religious scholars. Therefore, this paper evaluated the human cloning technology using the personalism and prudential personalism ethical-religious models to arrive at a workable moral paradigm. To achieve this objective, the paper employed the phenomenological and critical-literary literature review methods. The paper argued that previous ethical and religious researches have not adequately employed the ‘ideal’ ethical models to appraise the morality of human cloning hence; using the personalism and prudential personalism ethical-religious models were appropriate to reveal that every human life has worth and its commodification is an aberration. The paper concluded that based on the paradigm of prudential personalist ethics, cloning humans (especially, human reproductive cloning) negates respect for human life, human dignity, and communal goods hence it should not be practiced.
Highlights
One controversial issue in contemporary times that has generated serious ethical and religious debates is cloning, especially human cloning
Numerous uncertainties are hanging over the biotechnology of human cloning which has prompted medical ethicists and religious organizations to ask questions that bordered on its ethical and religious considerations
This paper evaluated the human cloning technology using the personalism and prudential personalism ethical-religious models to arrive at a workable moral paradigm
Summary
One controversial issue in contemporary times that has generated serious ethical and religious debates is cloning, especially human cloning. These effects are, evaluated according to needs and purposes that have been established not by subjective preference nor merely by abstract laws, but by the constitution of the human person in its individuality and communal goal (Ashley and O‟Rourke 1989) In this sense, prudential personalist ethics proposes that the rightness or wrongness of any human actions can best be judged by considering the indefinite yet teleological goal or end known as „life‟ and by asking, how such action in its context contribute to the growth of persons in a community (Waweru 2018). Viewing human cloning from its ethical-communal perspective, the technology may not find favor in prudential personalist ethics
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