The Essential Right of Self, UN proposal
Please support my UN proposal, "The Essential Right of Self".
It is a clearer and less morally ambiguous proposal regarding the ownership of "self" and I have made this proposal in light of the likely failure of the GeneticCorp proposal that is currently being voted on.
Juntsington favors this proposal, and notes that it guarantees essentially nothing not already guaranteed by a vast majority of nations.
Can I rant for a moment? If the Goverment has the right to restrict biotechnology within their own nation, and the said cloned individual "solely owned by his or her genome" is allowed, for scientific development. This is NOT being an issue of private industry, and we having FAITH that we want GOOD SCIENCE from a health point of view. An example could be that perhaps a young mother of 2 children is delivering a child, she is in for a C section and a bleed occurs, she is placed on a heart/lung machine a clone (of her genome) is developed and the clone in fact in this case does not reach a viable age, capable of surviving outside the artifical womb. The needed, tissue or organ of said issue is utilized and said organ/tissue or other would allow this young mother to raise her children and live a normal productive life. This is not wrong. The whereas doen't matter in a UN resolution it is the RESOLVED that counts. We must have faith in science, in humankind and society. Yes there are people that tend to abuse but that doesn't mean that all can not have because some are not responsible. If a cloned human is or is not viable YES it should be accorded the same rights as naturally born humans. No, I do not know when our sole or intellect comes into play yet in the areas of disease control: you have a genetic disorder, it may kill you at a young age suddenly that clone could be altered, the gene is corrected, your gene say for cystic fibrosis is altered and this hereditary disease that struck you in childhood, is suddenly corrected, and you live a normal productive life, isn't that ok. Isn't it ok to further the development of humans intellectually? To explore as humans have and should on this planet....and any where else? I say have FAITH in humans we are responsible and science is important so vote for The GenetiCorp Convention UN resolution.
We do not disagree entirely with the points you have made. Part of the reason we offered the "Essential Right of Self" resolution is because the GenetiCorp Convention is divissive because it has been presented as a free trade initiative. Essential Right of Self is purely a human rights initiative and I feel it has a stronger chance of passine the UN council than the GenetiCorp Convention. Our resolution in no way overrules the use of cloning or genetic science, it also does nothing to specifically advance genetics. It *does* however give a person ownership over their own genome, without giving them the right to profit from it (whether this is allowed would be up to the individual nations to decide for themselves).
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Endorse my resolution, please! It needs it.
I will endorse your resolution when it becomes a resolution. :lol:
Okay, you're right. It's just a proposal. Where are all the delegates who were interested in the GenetiCorp Convention? Our proposal gives people ownership over their own genomes. It just also gives individual nations the right to decide whether their citizens can clone themselves, rather than explicitly banning or allowing human cloning.