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  Internal Medicine JournalVolume 35 Issue 2, Pages 126 - 127 Published Online: 10 Feb 2005 Journal compilation © 2009 Royal Australasian College of Physicians The Official Journal of the Adult Medicine Division of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 48K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Ethics in Medicine Ethical and social issues of embryonic stem cell technology Funding: None Potential conflicts of interest: None Copyright 2005 Royal Australasian College of Physicians KEYWORDS therapeutic cloning • ova • commodification • abstraction ABSTRACTAbstractTherapeutic cloning is debated as a cure for a host of diseases in the developed world. The likely source for the materials for therapeutic cloning, human ova, would be poor women and women from the developing world. The ethics and potential social consequences inherent in this technology are fraught and encourage the com modification and abstraction of one of the fundamental conditions of human life. (Intern Med J 2005; 35: 126–127) Received 20 October 2004; accepted 29 October 2004. | 
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