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Illegal Beings: Human Clones
Identity Theft
libfemme ( 12/07/2003, 23:20:24 )I've got to weight in on this topic again. The scare over "identity theft" doesn't take into account human nature. Cloning creates a baby. That means anyone who clones albert eistein II now has to raise the little tyke. The cloner becomes an adoptive parent with all the parental responsibilities to support, feed, clothe, education and nuture such a child. When artifical insemination first became available someone had the bright idea of offering the sperm of nobel prize winners to couples looking for a sperm donor. The project failed. It turns out when people want a baby what they want is one as much like them as possible. Couples looking over the pictures of sperm donors choose donors that looked young, healthy and similular to them.People looking to make a baby don't go for brains but for genetic simularity. If it is possible to have a baby with their own DNA, potential parents will pick that option over and above any other.The idea that anyone is going to spend the money (IVF costs thousands of dollars) to clone someone else DNA, find a surrogate mother to carry the embryo to term, and then raise it as their own, begs the question what would be the person's personal motive?Put yourself in the cloners point of view. Imagine taking on the burden of raising and loving a child essentially forever. You are creating a family. You raise this child, you are its adoptive parent. Imagine yourself adopting this foreign DNA and raising it as your own. Does that tug at your heart strings? Or does the idea of having childen descended from your own DNA give you that feeling?Having a university of einsteins begs the question where are you going to find a university of women willing to become the mothers of these clones? What is their motivation for doing so? What profit or benefit does the individual gain from doing this?People do things out of self interest. No young girl, or young married couple, is going to say ok I'll adopt this child for the good of society. That isn't how people think.
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