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To: MHGinTN
I'm NOT defending the cloning of human beings. Go back and read my post. I am in favor of allowing the cloning of spare parts from our own bodies to save our lives if the need should arise. Too many people today are on waiting lists only to die cause they can't get a donor match and the lucky few who do get a replacement body organ have to live on anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. I'm sure we'd able to discover how to grow a stem cell into a specialized organ without creating a whole new human being in the process. The fact cloning has a dark side we don't want or need is no reason to deprive ourselves of a legitimate benefit that could save people alive today. And since life is a precious gift from God I think that if there was even a remote chance cloning spare parts from us was a possibility that could save our lives at some point in the future, it definitely ought to be pursued. All of which should have nothing to do with bringing about the cloning of human beings themselves.
14 posted on 02/27/2003 3:42:49 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
ALL cloning is reproductive. ALL cloning starts with nuclear transfer of the chromosomal mass from a cell donate, into the denucleated ovum. That is reproductive by definition, the donor of the genetic material is duplicated at the embryonic age, then the individual embryonic human being is killed to harvest stem cells.

If, on the other hand, you are trying to convey the idea that it is okay to take your stem cells and grow a replacement organ, without going through the nuclear transfer of your chromosomal data into a denucleated ovum, then you are not talking about cloning. Again, cloning is the nuclear transfer of your genetic data into a denucleated ovum, thus conceiving a close copy of you at your age of embryo. If you aren't stealth defending this creation then killing for harvest, don't use the term 'cloning' with the term organ. If you are defending this conceiving of duplicates (embryonic individual humans) from whom to harvest organs and tissues, then be honest.

16 posted on 02/27/2003 3:55:42 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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