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libfemme ( 04/22/2004, 17:16:09 )There are no published pictures showing defects from cloning. Curious, isn't it? You'd think that if they had them they would be plastered all over the nightly news? Trust me, the legions of cloning opponents would bandy them on every placard and poster if they had them. (Instead they showed picture of "aborted fetuses" on posters at the UN. Get the picture?)You can find pictures of Dolly the sheep, cows, mice, pigs and kittens. They all look like their parent, that is "normal". If they were cloned from a normal looking adult, they look just like them, that is normal at birth.The American Academy of Science, however, says that clones may have defects which are not apparent. Which is a way of saying we assume clones are defective because we can't prove otherwise. But we can just as easily say the same thing about any newborn.One scientist told the BBC that "the death of Dolly the sheep last year was probably just an indication of what was to come: that many more cow and sheep clones would die as they approached middle age."Might I point out that normal sheep die too when they get old? Cloning does not make a animal immortal! Dolly the sheep, by the way did not die. She was destroyed, put to death intentionally by her owners, because they felt she should not suffer with arthritis. I doubt Dolly felt the same way about it! But since the Roslin Institute has a political stake in opposing reproductive cloning, it's hard to see their decision as unbiased. Dolly, as a success, was becoming a political embarassment to them. (Dolly was cloned, by the way, with funds from the Conservative British government. The Roslin Institute has since had financial problems and was sold to an American firm opposed to reproducive cloning.)Arthritis occurs in many, if not most, animals and people as they get older even when they are not cloned! There is no clear proof of cause and effect here. No one says that a clone will be "healther" than the original! Clonig doesn't improve on the original.While I don't know of any pictures of defective looking clones, I can, however, send you to any number of sites that show pictures of genetic defects in "naturally born animals". Birth defects occur regularly in nature.All creatures are born with some genetic defect or other. It may differ from individual to individual. My family may suffer from a proclivity toward heart disease, yours might harbor carriers of cystic fibrous, etc, but there is no one, human or animal who does not have some, probably many genetic defects in their genome. How can I say that? Because all creatures die! No one is immortal. Cloning is not the cause of genetic defects. They have existed long before cloning and will exist long after.Cloning does not erase any genetic defects that might be in the original genome. Therefore if the original had a proclivity toward arthritis, then the clone will inherit that proclivity as well.Below is just one of many articles citing the possible defects that we may discover someday in some animals who have been cloned. The picture is of a cloned horse. Note the caption shows a normal looking colt, but the caption reads as a question not a certainty.
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