CLONING: THE RIGHT TO THE ‘ONSET OF EXISTENCE’
CLONING: THE RIGHT TO THE ‘ONSET OF EXISTENCE’

Summary/Abstract: Evolution established relationships between the living and the non-living counterparts as well as systems through which the organisms flourished on earth. Asexual reproduction, a naturally developed cloning process, establishes species in a continuously changing environment, while sexual reproduction renders diversity as a characteristic to organisms. All organisms acquire a defining moment at which they come in life called the ‘onset of existence’. Moral dilemmas rose to humans as a result of their social, scientific and technological development. Among such dilemmas, the issues of identity and ‘onset of existence’ characterize human’s personality. Animal cloning contributed to further discuss moral dilemmas. Considering that cloning may be applied to humans, the issue of the right to the ‘onset of existence’ is discussed. Humans that will occur by implementing cloning processes will certainly be deprived of this naturally emerging right. A new right, a ‘post-onset of existence’ requires to be defined.

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