Kerry Lynn Macintosh is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University, California, School of Law. She received her B.A. from Pomona College and her J.D. from Stanford Law School. Professor Macintosh is the author of Human Cloning: Four Fallacies and Their Legal Consequences (Cambridge, 2012) and Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law (Cambridge, 2005). She has also published articles about infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and embryonic stem cell research. Professor Macintosh is a member of the American Law Institute, a law reform organization.
Introduction
Part I. Objections to Human Germline Modification: 1. Therapy and enhancement
2. Transgressing boundaries
3. Transforming reproduction into manufacture
4. Stratifying society
5. Endangering democracy, society, and the species
Part II. Psychological Origins and Consequences of Objections to Human Germline Modification: 6. Psychological essentialism
7. Envy
Part III. Human Germline Modification and the Law: 8. Existing laws and regulations
9. Future laws and regulations
10. Prohibiting human germline modification harms scientists and science, parents, children, foreigners, and society
Conclusion.
