I'm not talking about cloning an actual person - that goes way too far. I'm referring to the news that scientists in Korea have successfully cloned a human embryo to extract stem cells, and this of course has the potential to save many lives.

What's your take on this?

 

we shouldn't touch cloning at all. its wrong to farm human embryos for replacement part. its a slaughter house.

cloning human is wrong. we can't play god.

 

But what if your life depends on it? I mean, we're talking about a blastocyte, a collection of a few (hundre? thousand?) cells, not a 2nd or 3rd trimester fetus.

 

okay to clone parts as long as it doesn't develope into a fetus

 

what are you basing this radical opinion on? Cloning a person isn't even wrong. Someday we will be able to make a decorticate clone i.e. no cerebral corex = "brain dead" for spare parts and MANY people will benefit. People talk high and mighty now, but when they get kidney, liver, heart or lung failure and they need an organ, I'll bet they'll be the 1st in line for cloned parts.

 

I've seen more than a couple of Jehova's Witness' get a blood transfusion when their life was on the line.

 

thats still wrong. think about it. growing a baby n turning it into a vegetable for body parts. n you know what next. a business to clone people. next thing you know. there will be clone of diseased people just because someone feel it is right to ease their suffering by have a replacement of their love ones.

 

Seems about as ethical as timming my fingernails or popping a zit.

 

Yes, clone me! I wish I had a clone of myself to do stuff for me.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by S2000boi
thats still wrong. think about it.