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Re: Should we ban cloning?
SC ( 11/13/2003, 01:29:49 )Your use of the phrase "organ reproduction" is hitting the nail right on the head. So organ reproduction is good? At what point would it become bad? After two organs had been reproduced? Or three? Or five? Or a whole person? Once you'd prolonged someone's life by giving his heart younger versions of his own heart cells, could you refuse to do the same for his kidney? Eventually, you'd end up with a person composed entirely of cells derived from cloning, just as you would if that person had been conceived through cloning. Genetically, the end result is the same. The processes used to clone the cells would also be the same.Various countries have tried to split cloning into different categories for political purposes, but opposition to one "kind" of cloning still delays acceptance of the other. It's a package deal; if you want your disease or disability cured, you'll have to allow someone else to be able to do the same. It is discrimination to say, "Cloning is right for me but wrong for you." Democracy is not simple majority rule; it is majority rule with minority rights. There are certain individual rights you just don't mess with in a democracy, no matter who wins the vote. The right to decide whether and how to reproduce oneself is a very important one. If we wanted to forbid people from having younger versions of themselves, we would have to outlaw not just "therapeutic" and "reproductive" cloning, but sexual reproduction too. Actually, it's likely that our bodies do produce some younger replacement cells on their own, so the "legality" of healing could then be questioned as well. In fact, it already has; opposition to "reproduction" has made people effectively try to ban healing.
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