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To: thames_sider who wrote (38712)	11/26/2001 10:34:29 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

What is the overriding ethical problem with cloning? As you know, I can't begin to speak to the concerns of the religious. The pro-life folks are concerned about therapeutic cloning because cloning creates an embryo designed for destruction, which is tantamount to murder. I do not know what their concerns are about reproductive cloning. I can tell you mine. I'm totally against reproductive cloning for reasons that I've described on this thread before. First of all, the art of cloning is too imperfect right now to provide more than a remote chance of producing a heathy baby. They went through bunches and bunches of deformed sheep to get to Dolly. I think it's way past ethical or humane to do that to a human baby. Once they perfect cloning in sheep, then we can talk about cloning a baby. Secondly, once we are able to clone reliably, it seems pretty sick to me to produce a duplicate infant. I would think it inevitable that such a baby would need a live-in shrink practically from birth. I think that's unethical because it's cruel. Karen

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