Saturday, December 28

This is scary. If it's true, I fear that we have stepped beyond any line ever drawn in the sand of bioethics...first, the fact that experimenting is being done on a human being, second that human being's purpose in life is nothing more than an experiment, and third we are playing God on the most intimate of levels -- creating life.

Group Claims Creation of First Human Clone (TechNews.com) Randall Prather, a reproductive biotechnology professor at the University of Missouri, said an independent expert not named by Clonaid would be essential to conduct DNA fingerprinting to determine the baby is in fact a clone.
"Is it possible in humans? Potentially. Have we seen problems with cloning domestic animals? Yes. Do we understand what causes those problems? No. Therefore we shouldn't do it," Prather said.

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