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To: Lane3 who wrote (38710)	11/26/2001 9:57:10 AM
From: maried.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Karen, your original post on Novak states... stopping the cloning of human embryos for research was* more important than winning the war on terrorism.* I agree with that was! As I stated, none of us were concerned with terrorism before 9/11/. Thus, he does not gain admittance to the Hall of Shame on this statement. Marie

To: Lane3 who wrote (38710)	11/26/2001 10:01:12 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (10) \| Respond to of 82486

What is the overriding ethical problem with cloning? I can see a few issues such as what legal rights a clone would/should have, not to mention more philosophical issues around the nature of identity. Neither greatly interest me. But I can't see why it's so critically important that humans cannot be cloned, nor why so much of the opposition seems to be from the religious. Is there some idea that someone cloned would be lacking a soul? Seems rather medieval. Or is it viewed as trespassing on divine prerogative...?