The article discusses the issue of criminalizing human cloning as an act that poses a potential threat to the tetrad of human – society – state – humanity. It presents the views of researchers on the pros and cons of reproductive human cloning. The article focuses on the existing attempts to create a neo-human in foreign countries. It highlights the need for reflection on bioethics as a starting mechanism for the practical implementation of protecting the most vulnerable human right. Future consequences are simulated in the case of the practical implementation of the scientific idea of creating a human duplicate, including possible social inequality based on genetics. Negative scenarios of human generation on a production scale are broadcast. The prospect of introducing criminal liability for human cloning is analyzed through the lens of protecting and safeguarding the human genome as a biogenetic right. The proposed models of crimes and cases are evaluated by scientists.

human genome, cloning, crime, biogenocide, crime object, human trafficking

Galyukova Maria Igorevna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Ural Institute of Management RANEPA (66, 8 Marta st., Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-3719-1707, RSCI Author ID: 499385, e-mail: 753825777@mail.ru

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