title: [Right to life vs right to a determined quality of life. Reflections on human cloning].
abstract: This article studies the bioethic divergences appeared as a consequence of the use and therapeutic obtaining of stem cells. It also chronicles the development of the cloning techniques and then, following the parameters of Bioethics, it distinguishes a categorization of the cloning with reproductive aims and cloning with therapeutic aims. It emphasizes how this problematic takes us to the beginning of human life and to the determination of the moment where this one deserves ethic recognition and legal protection. It also marks that the impact that would have the development of the therapeutic-cloning over the quality of life of sick persons and old men changes the traditional points of view. It is necessary a urgent normative with intenational validity, nevertheless the real safeguard against abuses would only be possible by the respect to human dignity by all the people who are involve in the investigation of these techniques.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maris Martínez
mesh_terms: D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000941:ethics*; D015925:Cryopreservation; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000941:ethics; D012106:Research; D026712:Value of Life