PROTECŢIA PENALĂ A VIEŢII PERSOANEI ÎN PRIVINŢA TEHNICILOR BIOMEDICALE MODERNE

Abstract

This paper reviews the development of modern biotechnologies, without precedent in history of science,guided to a great enthusiasm in genetics and molecular biology experiments. The humanity is founded today inpost genomics era and she has the debt to try all the things offered by the nature and destiny. But, what is theprice? Bioethics tries to maintaine the flame of self conscience and brings in foreground the present problemsgenerated by the new technologies and their possibilities to change life. At the beginning, cloning was just anunachieved ambition, a dream. By the time, it became a reality, whom the contemporary society is not ready toaccept, because cloning represents one of the most controversial achievements of the modern science. Thepurposes of human cloning can be best explained by referring to the two classic types of cloning: reproductiveand therapeutical. In reproductive cloning the cloned embryo is implanted in a woman's uterus and this shoulddevelop there. Therapeutic cloning could be used to provide replacement organs or tissues for people who havehad theirs damaged. A clone is not a republication of a person, it only copies his/her genetic information, but nothis/her personality. Therefore, the relationship between an "original" and a clone is rather like that between thetwins after separation. They share all the same DNA, but little of the same environment and life experiences.