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The Right to Reproduce
libfemme ( 04/08/2004, 03:14:19 )I agree with you.For couples who are infertile, and for whom existing assisted reproductive technologies cannot help them conceive, cloning is the best option to have a child of their own. The percentage of people who need or will ever use cloning to produce a child may be small but that is irrelevant. Minorities do not lose their rights because they are minorities. What some one else "thinks" about someone elses family is also irrelevant. All sorts of people have opinions about other people's lives, who they marry, how many kids they have, if they are step parents or adopting parents, if their child is handicapped or less "attractive" in some subjective way. It's all rubbish. People should mind their own business.The entire idea of governments and societies interferring with a person's decision to have children is abhorent. In China birth control is enforced on people. In Britain people have to go through a insulting red tape process to see a physican about invitro fertilization technologies. This is outrageous. Any government attempt to regulate or prohibit someone's ability to reproduce has a name. It is called eugenics.It would be outrageous to prevent a diabetic woman from attempting to conceive because she might have a overlarge syndrome child. It would be abhorent if people who are carriers of a gene for cystic fibrous, hemophilia, Huntington's disease or any of a mirad all conditions, were legally thwarted from reproducing. There is no family and no person who does not have some gene that could become a genetic disease. After all, all people are mortal. We all die eventually, and usually of heart disease or cancers which are affected by if not caused by our genes.What then is the opposition to cloned children? That their genes are known. Their genome has existed before. So what? Every person on the planet has 1/2 the genes of their mother already. What difference does it make if they have 100% of their mother's genes? To oppose a child's creation because you object to their "genes", and that is the only basis on which cloned children are opposed, is nothing but eugenics, a word with a long and ugly history.
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