dan020350 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I think i am for cloning as a medical science. Too bad its too late, poor poor Michael J Fox.

dan020350 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I wonder what happens if there are no more kidney donors ? Can't you not clone a kidney, for regenerative tissue ? I once was persuade cloning a human being and kill him for his kidney. But thinking now, freedom to clone, to get this science is very good. Unless human nature is evil. ???? IF there is no cloning it will be good business for doctors and drug companies.

GrandDraggon66 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

i think when we play god and clone each other /something will go wrong as if the world wasnt overpolpulated the only reason they would clone are for body parts with same dna and the thought of that makes me sick

DenisJaimes (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I prefer genetic testing to be the ruling disease-screening technique.

DenisJaimes (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Such DNA screening techniques will very likely open the doors to reproductive cloning. Also, anyone could steal an embryo from a lab. And I didn't say that the CLONE would have less dignity, I said that it is unnecessary, why bother cloning if the parent would love the child no matter how they LOOK. But if that's not the case, then that parent doesnt really deserve to have that child, or should at least be taught about parent-child values.

steevmac (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I don't quite understand why you say a cloned human has less "dignity" than a naturally-conceived human.In addition what stops laws from ruling against cloning for aesthetic purposes but allowing it for disease-screening purposes? We have laws governing recombinant DNA, and gene synthesis, techniques which are used everyday. Parents' fantasies & dreams are a very minor & controllable potential aspect of cloning.

steevmac (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Not quite. Both increased human lifespan and lower infant mortality are mainly due to increased hygiene and better medecine.Genetic engineering is the source of ALL insulin used by diabetics, TPA which saves lives of stroke victims, blood-clotting agent in haemophiliacs and countless other proteins, hormones & enzymes. When we understand more and more about nature, it enables us to more and more safely manipulate it to prevent suffering & death.

DenisJaimes (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

...Will make parents feel better. So, no... I say NO to cloning!

DenisJaimes (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

...say a non-clone, or at least not like that child AS MUCH as a cloned child. I agree that parents have the duty to avoid children with defects because IT WILL LIMIT THE CHILDS HAPPINESS. But cloning goes beyond that. It's about a fantasy/dream, not a duty. If we want a future with dignity, we need to get rid of such thoughts of child preference. We need to learn to love children the way randomness arranged them (remember what i said about disabilities). Also, I doubt that cloning...

DenisJaimes (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

I agree with this guy, yet this "fuss" is about human dignity, at least something that I am strongly concerned with. The main duty that all parents have is to make sure that their child lives a happy life in the future and that there are no barriers to this happiness. Yet cloning isn't about making the child feel better; it's about making the parent feel better. The thing is, if the parent wants to have a cloned child, it means that he/she will not love (or be happy with) a child that is