Reflexions on Cloning.

Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997 (Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German); Tel. 06-698.85003; Fax 06-698.84716.

The Pontifical Academy for Life is the department of the Vatican that has as its specific mandate the "study, information and formation on the principal problems of biomedicine and of law, relative to the promotion and defense of life." Throughout its eight-year history (the Academy was created by Pope John Paul II in 1994), the Academy of Life has produced numerous studies and documents on various topics related to human life. In this booklet, the Academy addresses the profound questions surrounding the prospect of human cloning. Human cloning belongs to the...