| Yes, you can clone your pet, but do you want to? Next Avenue: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, discussed the ethical concerns of cloning animals, including the use of surrogate animals to grow the embryos and the overwhelming numbers of animals languishing in shelters for lack of homes. “You’re putting a lot of lab animals through medical procedures that are unnecessary, that are not of benefit to them, and can harm them,” she said. “You must harvest eggs; you must have pregnant animals.” |
Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center and a professor in the department of bioethics at the university’s School of Medicine.