The Naked Clone How Cloning Bans Threaten Our Personal Rights

Subjects:

• Law » Constitutional Law
• Political Science » American Politics/Government
• Law » Contemporary Law

Reviews:

• Kunich leaves his readers with a keener understanding of the cloning debate, allowing them to grasp the core concepts while maintaining their interest and focus with his straightforward explanations.
  —Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 2003/2004
• [J]ohn C. Kunich's well-written and very accessible The Naked Clone provides an honest and refreshing advocacy for reproductive cloning....[K]unich has articulated a cogent, comprehensively researched argument that is a good primer for those who might otherwise not consider the legal issues surrounding reproductive cloning.
  —Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Spring 2004
• [T]he reader is provided with an understanding of how legislation banning or restricting cloning may affect constitutional rights....[t]his book is an excellent challenge to understand the legal issues underlying the cloning debate. Kunich addresses First Amendment protection for cloning research itself, as well as research as a necessary precursor to protected speech. Additionally, he addresses how reproductive cloning should be protected as a procreative liberty, and analyzed with abortion and contraception cases in mind. The Naked Clone will be most valuable to the reader who is trying to understand the possible constitutional crisis created by anti-cloning legislation in its current form.
  —Journal of Law & Family Studies 2004
• [T]he Naked Clone is a valuable work for anyone interested in the collision of politics and cuttin-edge science. It is one of the few books that make a bold, impassioned plea for moralistic politicans to cease standing athwart science, yelling, "Stop!" Such a commonsense viewpoint deserves to be more widely heard. In fact, one could say that it deserves to be cloned.
  —Libertarian Party Online 2003

• Endorsement From Daniel A. Farber
  McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law, Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law, and Associate Dean for Faculty Research
  University of Minnesota: The Naked Clone not only provides a systematic introduction to this vital topic, but more importantly, makes a cogent argument against ill-considered bans on cloning. Professor Kunich brings insightful analysis to a topic usually swamped by emotion and prejudice.
• Endorsement From Ronald D. Rotunda
  George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law George Mason University: An interesting and provocative book discussing not only the scientific background of human cloning but also proposed legislation to ban or limit human cloning as well as constitutional challenges to such legislation. Anyone interested in this timely legal issue will want to know John Kunich's analysis and argument as to why he believes that the modern case law may place important limits on efforts to ban cloning.
• Endorsement From Harvey A. Silverglate
  Partner, Silverglate & Good, Attorneys, Boston
  co-author, The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (HarperPerennial, 1999): John Kunich has written an astoundingly fascinating, important, and compelling book that every civilized person must read.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments and Dedication
• Preface
• Cloning in Science and Science Fiction
• Cloning Law in the United States
• International Law and Cloning Around the World
• Galileo in Modern Chains and the Banning of Scientific Research
• The Naked Clone and Bans on Reproductive Cloning
• The Proper Role of Law in Cloning
• Glossary
• Table of Cases
• Appendices
• State Laws and Federal Bills Applicable to Human Cloning
• Selected Foreign Laws Applicable to Human Cloning