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Originally Posted by lulababy  i think you raise some good points here. but i feel the issue you are raising is not necessarily problems with cloning, but problems with.. hum how would i word this... the aftermath?/with what bad people will be doing with cloning? in my mind it can be done in a pure and non evil way, same as giving birth to a baby. I dont think that cloned beings should have lesser rights than anyone else also... and isnt someone going to have to carry these embryos to term anyway? its not like they are being born in some machine. I dont think cloning will be happening on any kind of massive scale any time soon (for trafficing or wars or whatever) unless people gather armies of women ready to carry babies and giv ethem up for some greater purpose (i doubt they will find a lot of these kinds of women). as far as the dna patenting, i guess I thought it out alot further than i stated. I am assuming there will be some kind of database that doctors or cloners can refer to when they are looking into cloning certain dna, to see if that dna is AVAILBLE or not for cloning-kind of like a police/medical database. I dont really foresee any evil doers stealing hair from someone like angelina jolie and making some blackmarket clone of her without the help of established doctors and this yet unnamed database... its funny becaus this sounds like this could make a good movie.. LOL I just got the thought: what if someone DID make some blackmarket clone baby... what kind of legal reprocussions would there be?? it is a person afterall.. you cant say.. you are not allowed to be alive!! haha one can only imagine |
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Please keep in mind that all countries do not provide the 'freedom' that American women have.
They have already found these kind of women:
The threat to women's health, especially poor women, is so great that it helped bring together pro-choice and pro-life advocates in a common effort to ban human cloning. While the United States still has no federal law prohibiting cloning, other nations including Canada, France, Germany, Norway and Australia, have made human cloning for any purpose a serious crime (meriting five years of jail time in socially liberal Canada and seven in secular France). Additionally, the U.N. General Assembly recently passed the U.N. Declaration on Human Cloning, which (by a vote of nearly 3 to 1) calls on all nations to prohibit all forms of human cloning.
The declaration voiced concern that biotechnology developments could exploit women. It has not taken long to be proved right.
Together with a handful of nations (including the United Kingdom, China and Singapore), South Korea supports human embryo cloning for research. South Koreans have lionized Hwang. There is talk of a Nobel Prize nomination.
More than 1,000 Korean women have already signed up to give him their eggs -- on a Web site ("grotesque and bizarre" is the verdict from a Korean women's group).
The Web site includes a telling comment from a man saying he "fought" with his wife because she refused to sign up. The site deems those who do sign on as "angels" in the "patriotic army"; an entire high school class of 33 girls has signed up. Conversely, there have been
death threats against journalists critical of the effort.
Excerpted from:
What California can learn from Korean cloning scandal