Links + Resources

Essay by Zoloth
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/cloning/essay.shtml]
In "Born Again: Faith and Yearning in the Cloning Controversy," Laurie Zoloth addresses the ethical dilemmas and complications that accompany progressing cloning technologies from a theological perspective.

Poem by Fred Dings
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/cloning/poem.shtml]
Read the complete text of "Letter to Genetically Engineered Super Humans" that was read during the program.

Ezekiel 37
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/cloning/ezekiel37.shtml]
Read verses 1-14 of the scriptural passage that is often read during Shabbat Hagadol.

Science and Being
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/2004/09/23_science/]
A Speaking of Faith program in which Krista speaks with three scientists on how science and religious faith inform their understanding of what it means to be human.

Bioethics at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
[http://pewforum.org/bioethics/]
A page on bioethics including background on legal and ethical aspects of cloning and related issues and religious perspectives from various traditions.

Roslin Institute
[http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/]
Center for animal biotechnology located in Edinburgh, Scotland that created Dolly, the first animal cloned from a cell taken from an adult animal.

Cloning Fact Sheet
[http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml]
The U.S. Human Genome Project coordinated by the Department of Energy provides an excellent overview of cloning and some of the inherent ethical issues involved with the advancement of cloning.

Human Cloning Timeline
[http://www.stanford.edu/~eclipse9/sts129/cloning/timeline.html]
Web site created for a Stanford University course providing a historical timeline of cloning research.

"Free to Clone"
[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/magazine/26IDEA.html]
A report by Brian Alexander in The New York Times Magazine (September 26, 2004) that addresses the issue of cloning and stem cell research from an unexpected perspective—Constitutional protection under the First Amendment clause.

Sex and Cloning
[http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/]
A collection of articles and essays related to cloning from New Scientist magazine.

How Human Cloning Will Work
[http://www.howstuffworks.com/human-cloning.htm]
How Stuff Works provides an explanation of how cloning would theoretically work.

International News on Cloning
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science/cloning/]
The Washington Post provides a special section devoted to the latest news on the cloning/stem cell debate in the United States and around the world.