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Andreia SilvaDiana GonçalvesFábio SousaLiliana Freitas

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MUSLIM POSITION:

For this work we used the opinion of a sheik named

Aly Abdoune, who states that Islam encourages any

scientific breakthrough that will benefit humans, but Islam

condemns therapeutic cloning. Human beings are notcreated in pieces and can’t be subjected to experiments.

Every creature is God's work, which installs soulsinto bodies, not pieces, but as a whole.

:So, according to Islam, cloning humans is murder, itis disrespectful to the next, is a violation of thebasic right to life where heredity is not respected.

The sheik Abdoune concludes that creating amachine to assist in maintaining the life of acreature is something encouraged by Islam.

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MUSLIM POSITION:

For Muslims, scientists destroy embryos and malformed babies in this process.

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JUDAISM POSITION:Judaism holds a fairly positive view of cloning. One of thefundamental principles of Judaism is that God wants humanbeings to use all of their capacities to improve the health ofothers.

Therapeutic cloning, whereby scientists extract stem cells

from embryos, could lead to cures for diseases, mostJewish believe it should be allowed.

However, reproductive cloning, raises deep concernsin Jewish thought.

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CATHOLIC POSITON:

The Catholic Church condemns human cloning andstem cell research using human embryos.

According to the Vatican, life begins at the momentof conception.

Besides, Human beings are created in the image of Godand, therefore, are unique.

CATHOLIC POSITION: Statement from D. José PolicarpoAbout cloning, what is your view on the current progress of science?

D. José Policarpo - I think doctors and politicians have said, "Stop while you can.“Science does not have absolute rightsto make, in terms of research, all that the dynamism of researchallows. The human being is a sacred thing. So this is my cry:

"Stop while you can"

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CONCLUSION:Like the catholic Church, also other religions scattered across

the globe present a nefarious vision about the process ofhuman cloning, although every religion has its principles, lawsand characteristics, it is possible to identify some doctrinal

principles common and different between them, suchas:• cloning would destroy the unity of marriage and parenthood.• cloning subjects a person to be treated as an object.

In the other hand, we can see that only judaism defendstherapeutic cloning.