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.
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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