Has religion in anyway affected legislation with regards to cloning and abortion?

Answer 1

This sounds like an essay for school. Your thesis should be that it has, state why religions have done this, give examples, then check for future goals or agendas for religious groups.

Here are a few good examples.

Search for the recent South Dakota legislation, the US statute limiting or prohibiting partial birth abortion and the restrictions on funding for stem cell research.

Then check a religious site or two (using key words such as prolife) for their views and goals.

This isn't really a hard essay to do, the difficult part is narrowing down your research (which is why I've given some examples of what to search for), restating or paraphrasing without "plagarizing" and then coming up some kind of conclusion which is more than a restatement. Good luck.

Answer 2

Of course it has.

What's wrong with religion guiding people in how they come up with a belief system if its done in a rational way (ie NOT: kill the all infidels).

When talking about cloning, the question about what happens to the soul is what's prevalent -I think. If the genes are identical, is the soul the same -is it dilute the soul.

Of course the other problem with cloning is that it is spectacular unsuccessful meaning subjects develop all sorts of weird problems and die unexpectedly. So there's the whole tenet of "thou shalt not kill" in there.

And the term "playing God" falls in there too.

Abortion is the same way. Religion can look at it as when does a human fetus develop a soul? That's a question that science CANNOT answer and will never be able to answer.

Of course you can throw out the idea of a soul and go simply based on the number of nerve cells that have developed in the brain. But for a lot of people that's like tossing the baby out with the bathwater (pardon the pun). There are a lot of normal people who believe in God, souls, karma, and the spiritual without being crazy bible tapping fundamentalist kooks.

Answer 3

Religion only gets in the way.

Clonong has bad press but really it is the fact that these religious people are completely uneducated about the science.

Abortion i know is horrible but stem cell research relies on it.

And who knows one day you may have to rely on the stem cell research

Answer 4

Most definitely! Many politicians are supported or backed by people who are religiously active. So to keep their support politicians will vote how their backers or supporters want.

Answer 5

we should not clone people period

Answer 6

It should not but it has!!!

Answer 7

it should not