Cloning and Human Identity: With a Focus on Charlotte Kerner’s Blueprint

Abstract

In this article, I would like to examine the problems of cloning and the crisis of human identity felt by cloning humans, focusing on Charlotte Kerner’s Blueprint(2000). As biotechnology advances, the issue of human cloning is constantly raised, and concerns are increasing. No matter how human cloning is intended for therapeutic purposes, they are concerned that the results could go in a different direction. Even if human cloning prioritizes the purpose of treatment, it can have a negative effect on the society in which we live. The rapid development of modern biotechnology is causing various bioethics problems. It is time for society to think about solutions that can be research for therapeutic purposes, such as incurable diseases, while addressing concerns about bioethics. The identity problems that can arise when cloned humans live with us should also be considered, and the dignity and value of human beings should be respected and protected as much as possible because cloned humans have equal lives like us. All human beings, including cloned humans, deserve respect and should not be a means for other human beings. And everyone related to biotechnology should actively discuss to establish ethical and legal regulations that can encourage the medical benefits that the advancement of biotechnology gives to humanity and minimize dysfunction.