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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (38780)	11/26/2001 7:02:43 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

Question: if a US citizen goes to a country where cloning is legal, has a cloned baby implanted, returns to the US and has the baby, is there any basis for denying the child full citizenship? Not under current law. The result would be the same as if the woman went overseas and had sex with some stranger and then got pregnant and came back to the US to have the child. Even if the law was specifically stated to make it illegal for an American to get pregnant with a clone, the clone once born would meet the criteria for citizenship. You would have to change the law covering citizenship to make the child not a citizen. Also it would be hard to tell the child was a clone. I don't think America is going to start random genetic tests of newborn babies and even if we did and had a genetic database covering all Americans available for comparison the clone could be a clone of someone from another country (indeed in the circumstances that your discribe it is not unlikely that this would be the case). Tim