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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (3892)	5/26/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: kormac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

L3 you know the answers to your own questions. Misery loves company. Regarding the test tube babies, it was Huxley in his Brave New World who talked about this before most. Him and Orwell presented two world views. The Orwellian big brother has a weaker presence now. And it is by Huxlean view that world develops today. Namely, we are seduced by technological fixes to our problems. Now I should add something about the Asian markets, but see my previous post. Seppo

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (3892)	5/26/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: Mark Myword	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

>>> Why is it alright to completely rebuild people with enormous amounts of birth defects but it is morally wrong to clone intelligent healthy people? << L3 - Couldn't agree with you more re: the birth defects. I think medicine should devote its resources to the people who need it most , and can expect to have the most years of useful life afterward, not trying to keep 92 year old cancer patients alive for another 3 weeks , at $40,000 a week in treatment , or trying to save a multiple-birth-defect child who will never have a normal life anyway , even if all the operations are "successful". There are enormous dollars wasted on all the crack babies and similar cases / they are a real tragedy, but not worth the resources.